... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Hibberd
1840 Whites: Skutterskelfe: Philip Hibberd, gamekeeper
Hildreth
FQ 249: 13 & 14 Mar 1829: exors of Wayne to Barker: the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell; the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site; the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw: bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W
FU 487: 16 May 1832: South Side, tithe map 194-6: John Passman of Hutton yeoman (1) James Robinson of Whorlton yeoman (2) Robert Pulman of Stockton gent [solicitor] (3): building with cowhouse & premises adjoining, and garth of 2r adjoining to the N: bounded by Jane Farnaby to E, by Mrs Hildreth to W, by street to N, by Mark Barker to S: occ by John Passman & James Harrison & Mary Kingston; and the house with garden adjoining, bounded by street to E & N, and by above prems to W & S
Tuesday 2 April 2013
Saturday 30 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Hackforth to Hewison
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Hackforth
ET 257: 2 & 3 Jan 1823: garth, orchard & houses, probably North End: John Hackforth was a previous occupier
Hall
1832: Thomas Hall was buried on Fri 12 Oct a73; Benjamin Hall on Fri 12 Oct a25; Jane Hall on 12 Nov a30 [PRs] – Jane Hall’s age is given as 75 in the list “Sepultorum nomina”, but as Jacob Honeyman’s name is altogether omitted, this is probably an error in Mr Barlow’s reading of a list
1 Dec 1775: Thomas Hall married Sarah Monroe [witnesses: Jon Eland, William Smith]
22 Dec 1775: Thomas Hall, papermaker, buried
13 Jan 1794: bap of Charles, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]
27 Mar 1806: bap of Benjamin David, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]
Thomas Hall married Ann Shields 23 Nov 1809 [witnesses: John Cliborn, Anne Richardson and Michael Gill]
30 Nov 1817: Charles Hall of Whorlton married Mary Taylor otp. Their children’s baptisms: Jane 1818, Elizabeth 1819, Charles 1821, John 1823, Benjamin 1827, Robinson 1829, Marianne 1831, Isabella 1837. Charles is described as farmer 1818-9, and labourer thereafter. Their son Benjamin married in 1851 and remarried in 1861. Charles died in 1854 a60. His family’s gravestone [MI 396] is near the cholera mound, and records Charles, Elizabeth his daughter who d1844 a22, and Mary his wife
Robert Hall is a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829
FQ 249: 13 & 14 Mar 1829: exors of Wayne to Barker: the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell; the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site; the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw: bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W
FP 310: 12 & 13 Feb 1830: James Catchasides jnr “late of Hutton shopkeeper and now of the township of Stockton miller” sold the ppties to Thomas Hall of Ormsby yeoman
Charles Hall was a former occupant of property, once used as a coachhouse, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
late July 1830: James Maw went with George Bewick “to Robert Hall’s butcher’s shop; we afterwards went to the prisoner’s house” [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]
Thomas Hall of Ormesby bought James Catchasides jnr’s premises near the Bay Horse in 1830. The Hall family kept the property for many years
FU 99: Will of Thomas Hall late of Ormesby gent dated 18 Oct 1830 & codicil dated 10 Dec 1830: his brothers Jonathan Hall saddler of Whitby and John Hall grocer of Castleton were his executors
G Hall is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book
“Apprenticeship Indre: Stephen Hall aged 12 years apprenticed to John Cook of Hutton near Rudby, weaver, to age 21 – April 1823: made between William Sayer (churchwarden) and Thomas Tweddle and William Sayer (overseers of poor of township of Middleton) and Stephen Hall ‘a poor child belonging to said township of Middleton’” [NYCRO Mic 1204]
Tithe Map: Charles Hall had a garden no 208 at the corner of South Side
1841 Census: Charles Hall 45 ag lab and 7 children, South Side
1841 Census: Stephen Hall 30 linen weaver and family, Castle Yard
1841 Census: George Hall/Wall 23 servant, at Rudby Mill
1841 Census: Charles Hall 18 servant at Windy Hill (Brigham)
Mar 1842: Robert Hall gave evidence at the trial of Robert Goldsbrough [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]. He does not appear in the 1841 Census for Hutton Rudby, and no connection with the other Hall family has been established.
Elizabeth Hall died 26 Dec 1844 a22, grave396 – not in PRs
1851 Census: South Side: Charles 57 b Potto ag lab, Mary 51 b Crathorne, children John 28 hand loom weaver linen, Benjamin 23 ag lab, Mary Ann 19, and Edward 9, and grandson Thomas Hall 11, all b Hutton
Stephen Hall and his family may be the Halls who moved to Barnsley in the 1840s, according to Primitive Methodist records. [Hastings: Ind Vill]
Benjamin Hall 23, labourer, son of Charles, labourer, married Hannah Braithwaite 21, daughter of Robert, tailor, on 3 May 1851 [witnesses: Robert Oates, Wm Hebbron]
19 Feb 1861: Will of Robert Braithwaite snr: retired tailor & draper. Pbte 11 Aug 1862. Wife Margaret: sons Robert jnr & John of Sedgefield: daughters Mary Ann wife of John Kendrew tailor, & Hannah decd wife of Benjamin Hall: nephew John Oates grocer. [East Side deeds]
Benjamin Hall 32 widower, groom, married Jane Wilkinson of Skutterskelf, servant, daughter of Lawrence, farmer, on 6 Apr 1861 [witnesses: John Goldsbrough, Jane Fletcher]
1861 Census: Mary Hall widow, with son 19, next door to
1861 Census: Benjamin Hall, his 2nd wife and 3 children
Martha Hall is given 3s 6d on 20 Mar 1869, in Barlow’s Notebook
1871 Census: Benjamin’s family absent. Matthew Hall 40 master tailor b Crathorne and his family live in West End
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Matthew Hall, tailor
24 Feb 1879: Matthew Hall general dealer bought property on East Side from Allan Bowes Wilson [East Side deeds]
Oddfellows Board: Bro: Benjamin Hall, Middlesbrough, 14 Mar 1879, a53
1881 Census: 108 High Wilson Street, Middlesbrough: Benjamin Hall’s widow Jane 49, her stepdaughter Mary A. domestic servant 23, Laurence 18 labourer b Hutton Rudby, Benjamin 16 labourer b Marton, Joseph 14 errand boy b Marton, Elizabeth 12 b Middlesbrough and George 9 b Marton
Oddfellows Board: Bro: John Hall, Hutton, 31 Mar 1884, a62
1884: John died a62. His gravestone [MI 315] records his daughter Lizzie d1893 a19, and Martha his widow d1915 a83
1887: active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included William Graham Hall, Robert Maughan, Edward Bainbridge, Thomas Sage and Kilvington Rickatson of Trenholme Bar [G Milburn’s notes]
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Hackforth
ET 257: 2 & 3 Jan 1823: garth, orchard & houses, probably North End: John Hackforth was a previous occupier
Hall
1832: Thomas Hall was buried on Fri 12 Oct a73; Benjamin Hall on Fri 12 Oct a25; Jane Hall on 12 Nov a30 [PRs] – Jane Hall’s age is given as 75 in the list “Sepultorum nomina”, but as Jacob Honeyman’s name is altogether omitted, this is probably an error in Mr Barlow’s reading of a list
1 Dec 1775: Thomas Hall married Sarah Monroe [witnesses: Jon Eland, William Smith]
22 Dec 1775: Thomas Hall, papermaker, buried
13 Jan 1794: bap of Charles, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]
27 Mar 1806: bap of Benjamin David, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]
Thomas Hall married Ann Shields 23 Nov 1809 [witnesses: John Cliborn, Anne Richardson and Michael Gill]
30 Nov 1817: Charles Hall of Whorlton married Mary Taylor otp. Their children’s baptisms: Jane 1818, Elizabeth 1819, Charles 1821, John 1823, Benjamin 1827, Robinson 1829, Marianne 1831, Isabella 1837. Charles is described as farmer 1818-9, and labourer thereafter. Their son Benjamin married in 1851 and remarried in 1861. Charles died in 1854 a60. His family’s gravestone [MI 396] is near the cholera mound, and records Charles, Elizabeth his daughter who d1844 a22, and Mary his wife
Robert Hall is a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829
FQ 249: 13 & 14 Mar 1829: exors of Wayne to Barker: the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell; the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site; the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw: bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W
FP 310: 12 & 13 Feb 1830: James Catchasides jnr “late of Hutton shopkeeper and now of the township of Stockton miller” sold the ppties to Thomas Hall of Ormsby yeoman
Charles Hall was a former occupant of property, once used as a coachhouse, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
late July 1830: James Maw went with George Bewick “to Robert Hall’s butcher’s shop; we afterwards went to the prisoner’s house” [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]
Thomas Hall of Ormesby bought James Catchasides jnr’s premises near the Bay Horse in 1830. The Hall family kept the property for many years
FU 99: Will of Thomas Hall late of Ormesby gent dated 18 Oct 1830 & codicil dated 10 Dec 1830: his brothers Jonathan Hall saddler of Whitby and John Hall grocer of Castleton were his executors
G Hall is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book
“Apprenticeship Indre: Stephen Hall aged 12 years apprenticed to John Cook of Hutton near Rudby, weaver, to age 21 – April 1823: made between William Sayer (churchwarden) and Thomas Tweddle and William Sayer (overseers of poor of township of Middleton) and Stephen Hall ‘a poor child belonging to said township of Middleton’” [NYCRO Mic 1204]
Tithe Map: Charles Hall had a garden no 208 at the corner of South Side
1841 Census: Charles Hall 45 ag lab and 7 children, South Side
1841 Census: Stephen Hall 30 linen weaver and family, Castle Yard
1841 Census: George Hall/Wall 23 servant, at Rudby Mill
1841 Census: Charles Hall 18 servant at Windy Hill (Brigham)
Mar 1842: Robert Hall gave evidence at the trial of Robert Goldsbrough [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]. He does not appear in the 1841 Census for Hutton Rudby, and no connection with the other Hall family has been established.
Elizabeth Hall died 26 Dec 1844 a22, grave396 – not in PRs
1851 Census: South Side: Charles 57 b Potto ag lab, Mary 51 b Crathorne, children John 28 hand loom weaver linen, Benjamin 23 ag lab, Mary Ann 19, and Edward 9, and grandson Thomas Hall 11, all b Hutton
Stephen Hall and his family may be the Halls who moved to Barnsley in the 1840s, according to Primitive Methodist records. [Hastings: Ind Vill]
Benjamin Hall 23, labourer, son of Charles, labourer, married Hannah Braithwaite 21, daughter of Robert, tailor, on 3 May 1851 [witnesses: Robert Oates, Wm Hebbron]
19 Feb 1861: Will of Robert Braithwaite snr: retired tailor & draper. Pbte 11 Aug 1862. Wife Margaret: sons Robert jnr & John of Sedgefield: daughters Mary Ann wife of John Kendrew tailor, & Hannah decd wife of Benjamin Hall: nephew John Oates grocer. [East Side deeds]
Benjamin Hall 32 widower, groom, married Jane Wilkinson of Skutterskelf, servant, daughter of Lawrence, farmer, on 6 Apr 1861 [witnesses: John Goldsbrough, Jane Fletcher]
1861 Census: Mary Hall widow, with son 19, next door to
1861 Census: Benjamin Hall, his 2nd wife and 3 children
Martha Hall is given 3s 6d on 20 Mar 1869, in Barlow’s Notebook
1871 Census: Benjamin’s family absent. Matthew Hall 40 master tailor b Crathorne and his family live in West End
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Matthew Hall, tailor
24 Feb 1879: Matthew Hall general dealer bought property on East Side from Allan Bowes Wilson [East Side deeds]
Oddfellows Board: Bro: Benjamin Hall, Middlesbrough, 14 Mar 1879, a53
1881 Census: 108 High Wilson Street, Middlesbrough: Benjamin Hall’s widow Jane 49, her stepdaughter Mary A. domestic servant 23, Laurence 18 labourer b Hutton Rudby, Benjamin 16 labourer b Marton, Joseph 14 errand boy b Marton, Elizabeth 12 b Middlesbrough and George 9 b Marton
Oddfellows Board: Bro: John Hall, Hutton, 31 Mar 1884, a62
1884: John died a62. His gravestone [MI 315] records his daughter Lizzie d1893 a19, and Martha his widow d1915 a83
1887: active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included William Graham Hall, Robert Maughan, Edward Bainbridge, Thomas Sage and Kilvington Rickatson of Trenholme Bar [G Milburn’s notes]
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Wednesday 27 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Garbutt to Grundy
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Garbutt
8 Dec 1822: Joseph Dalking married Jane Garbut [witnesses: James Smith, Samuel Hebbron]
Matthew Garbutt occupied property, “heretofore used as a coachhouse”, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
late July 1830: George Garbutt was seen in company with William Huntley and Robert Goldsbrough, who was in 1842 tried for Huntley’s murder, by James Gears and James Maw, and seen drinking with Goldsbrough and others by Anthony Wiles. The solicitor William Garbutt testified that George Garbutt “disappeared from our neighbourhood in the autumn of 1830. Warrants have been issued against him, but he could not be found.” [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]
Tithe Map: Isaac Whorlton owned Jacques Barn field, which Robert Garbutt occupied
G Garbutt is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book
Christopher Garbutt jnr, joiner & licensed victualler, 1840-1910, was one of those elected to the first Parish Council.
1851 Census: Kings Head: Christopher snr 68 b Marton & Ann Garbutt 53 b Yarm, children Mary Ann 13 and Christopher jnr 11 b Potto
1861 Census: Kings Head: widow Ann, son Christopher, and lodger Mary Garbutt 64 b Marton, a sister of Thomas Garbutt of Hutton Grange
1871-91 (inc) Censuses: Kings Head: Christopher Garbutt & family
1851 Census: Hutton Grange: Joseph Garbutt single 35 farmer employing 3 labourers b Marton, and brother Thomas 22 b Eston, sister Jane Garbutt 31 housekeeper b Marton and sister Elizabeth 27 b Marton; with farm labourers George Lee 18 b Stokesley and Richard Simpson 14 b Hutton Rudby, and house servant Jane Merrington 17 b Hutton Rudby
1851 Census: Enterpen: Miss Mary Willins 56 independent b Hutton Rudby, with lodger Miss Mary Garbutt 50 independent b Nunthorpe
1851 Census: Enterpen: Dorothy Garbutt lodged with her cousin Mrs Hannah Terry
Joseph & Thomas Garbutt were two sons of Joseph & Jane Garbutt of Eston Grange. Of the twelve children who survived to adulthood, six were newly settled in Hutton Rudby in the 1851 Census: Joseph, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth at Hutton Grange Farm, and Mary and Dorothy lodging in the village. A previous tenant of Hutton Grange was their relative, Harrison Terry. Joseph became in some way incapacitated by 1861, and Thomas took over the farm. The family remained there for many years.
Thomas Garbutt was churchwarden 1855-7; the churchwarden who signed the articles of inquiry 1857
20 Nov 1855: Eland to Codling: Mustard Garth 1r 28p: previously occ by Hannah Kay widow, then by Thomas Eland, now used as allotment gardens occupied by John Sidgwick, Robert Preston, Anthony Smith, Anthony Smith jnr, Thomas Milburn, Thomas Crook and Christopher Garbutt
1859 Whellan: Hutton Rudby: Mr Garbutt named as one of the principal proprietors of the soil. “Hutton Grange is a large brick building with stone dressings a quarter of a mile west from the village”.
Jun 1866: Thomas Garbutt lost 38 out of a herd of 40 “very valuable” cattle in the rinderpest outbreak. Nearly ¾ of his loss took place before the Act of Compensation was passed, and his friends and neighbours, led by Henry Passman, Henry Chapman & George Wilson, made up a private subscription for his benefit: Mr Barlow £2; Henry Passman £10; Henry Chapman £5; E J Wilson £5; Rev James Alder Wilson £2; T Bowes Wilson, Sunderland £2; John George Wilson, Durham £1; Medd Scarth, Carlton £2; Thomas Foster, Ober Green £5; Allan Bowes Wilson £5; George Wilson £10; William Barugh, Seamer £5; Miss D Boyes, Hutton £2; Mr J Goldsbro, Hutton £1; Mr W Goldsborough, Hutton £5; Robinson Watson Esq, Stainton £5; F Watson, Stockton £20; Two friends G Coates & J Hogg £5; A friend J Wallis 10/-; T Nesham, Ormesby £1. Total £93.10.0
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Miss Garbutt, Enterpen
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Christopher Garbutt, King’s Head
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Mrs Elizabeth Garbutt, linen manufr
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Thomas Garbutt, farmer, Grange
Oddfellows Board: BG: Matthw Garbutt, Barnsley, 16 Feb 1844, a50
Garbutt
8 Dec 1822: Joseph Dalking married Jane Garbut [witnesses: James Smith, Samuel Hebbron]
Matthew Garbutt occupied property, “heretofore used as a coachhouse”, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
late July 1830: George Garbutt was seen in company with William Huntley and Robert Goldsbrough, who was in 1842 tried for Huntley’s murder, by James Gears and James Maw, and seen drinking with Goldsbrough and others by Anthony Wiles. The solicitor William Garbutt testified that George Garbutt “disappeared from our neighbourhood in the autumn of 1830. Warrants have been issued against him, but he could not be found.” [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]
Tithe Map: Isaac Whorlton owned Jacques Barn field, which Robert Garbutt occupied
G Garbutt is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book
Christopher Garbutt jnr, joiner & licensed victualler, 1840-1910, was one of those elected to the first Parish Council.
1851 Census: Kings Head: Christopher snr 68 b Marton & Ann Garbutt 53 b Yarm, children Mary Ann 13 and Christopher jnr 11 b Potto
1861 Census: Kings Head: widow Ann, son Christopher, and lodger Mary Garbutt 64 b Marton, a sister of Thomas Garbutt of Hutton Grange
1871-91 (inc) Censuses: Kings Head: Christopher Garbutt & family
1851 Census: Hutton Grange: Joseph Garbutt single 35 farmer employing 3 labourers b Marton, and brother Thomas 22 b Eston, sister Jane Garbutt 31 housekeeper b Marton and sister Elizabeth 27 b Marton; with farm labourers George Lee 18 b Stokesley and Richard Simpson 14 b Hutton Rudby, and house servant Jane Merrington 17 b Hutton Rudby
1851 Census: Enterpen: Miss Mary Willins 56 independent b Hutton Rudby, with lodger Miss Mary Garbutt 50 independent b Nunthorpe
1851 Census: Enterpen: Dorothy Garbutt lodged with her cousin Mrs Hannah Terry
Joseph & Thomas Garbutt were two sons of Joseph & Jane Garbutt of Eston Grange. Of the twelve children who survived to adulthood, six were newly settled in Hutton Rudby in the 1851 Census: Joseph, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth at Hutton Grange Farm, and Mary and Dorothy lodging in the village. A previous tenant of Hutton Grange was their relative, Harrison Terry. Joseph became in some way incapacitated by 1861, and Thomas took over the farm. The family remained there for many years.
Thomas Garbutt was churchwarden 1855-7; the churchwarden who signed the articles of inquiry 1857
20 Nov 1855: Eland to Codling: Mustard Garth 1r 28p: previously occ by Hannah Kay widow, then by Thomas Eland, now used as allotment gardens occupied by John Sidgwick, Robert Preston, Anthony Smith, Anthony Smith jnr, Thomas Milburn, Thomas Crook and Christopher Garbutt
1859 Whellan: Hutton Rudby: Mr Garbutt named as one of the principal proprietors of the soil. “Hutton Grange is a large brick building with stone dressings a quarter of a mile west from the village”.
Jun 1866: Thomas Garbutt lost 38 out of a herd of 40 “very valuable” cattle in the rinderpest outbreak. Nearly ¾ of his loss took place before the Act of Compensation was passed, and his friends and neighbours, led by Henry Passman, Henry Chapman & George Wilson, made up a private subscription for his benefit: Mr Barlow £2; Henry Passman £10; Henry Chapman £5; E J Wilson £5; Rev James Alder Wilson £2; T Bowes Wilson, Sunderland £2; John George Wilson, Durham £1; Medd Scarth, Carlton £2; Thomas Foster, Ober Green £5; Allan Bowes Wilson £5; George Wilson £10; William Barugh, Seamer £5; Miss D Boyes, Hutton £2; Mr J Goldsbro, Hutton £1; Mr W Goldsborough, Hutton £5; Robinson Watson Esq, Stainton £5; F Watson, Stockton £20; Two friends G Coates & J Hogg £5; A friend J Wallis 10/-; T Nesham, Ormesby £1. Total £93.10.0
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Miss Garbutt, Enterpen
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Christopher Garbutt, King’s Head
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Mrs Elizabeth Garbutt, linen manufr
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Thomas Garbutt, farmer, Grange
Oddfellows Board: BG: Matthw Garbutt, Barnsley, 16 Feb 1844, a50
Monday 25 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Falkland to Friendly Society
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Falkland
The 10th Viscount Lucius Bentinck Carey 1803-84 married
(1) Amelia, by whom he had a son Lucius William Charles Augustus Frederick, born 24 Nov 1831, married 11 May 1858 and died 6 Aug 1871. Buried Penshurst, Kent. [Memorial in chancel]
(2) Elizabeth Catherine, Dowager Duchess of St Albans (d 2 Dec 1893) on 10 Nov 1859. She was the youngest daughter of Maj-Gen Joseph Gubbins of Stoneham, Hants and Kilfrush, Co Limerick. She had married the 9th Duke in May 1839, as his second wife (his first wife, the widow of the banker Coutts, had died without issue); her son was 10th Duke of Saint Albans.
On the death of the 10th Viscount 12 Mar 1884 the UK Barony (he was made Baron Hunsdon by William IV) expired.
FS 461: 2 & 3 Feb 1831: mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland
FT 547: 4 Feb 1831: mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland
GG 130: 31 Oct 1835: Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2): 2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood: bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson: bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington: bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd: bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”
In 1842 Lord Falkland first paid one third of the expense of cleaning the church (£1-15-11 ½d)
Lord Falkland gave £20 to School Acct 1874 – Barlow’s Notebook
Lord Falkland was a major landowner in Kirklevington; there the Archbishop of York held the advowson
In 1860 Lord Falkland added an acre of ground to the churchyard [Eddowes]
“Lord Falkland has come tonight” [letter from E Garbutt 17 Aug 1863: Letters to a Miller’s Daughter]
Date of Will 16 May 1874, executed in Paris
Date of death 12 Mar 1884
Place of death the Villa Nevet, Montpellier, buried in cemetery there
Date of Probate 13 Jun 1884
Value of estate gross personalty £2360-18-9d
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Falkland
The 10th Viscount Lucius Bentinck Carey 1803-84 married
(1) Amelia, by whom he had a son Lucius William Charles Augustus Frederick, born 24 Nov 1831, married 11 May 1858 and died 6 Aug 1871. Buried Penshurst, Kent. [Memorial in chancel]
(2) Elizabeth Catherine, Dowager Duchess of St Albans (d 2 Dec 1893) on 10 Nov 1859. She was the youngest daughter of Maj-Gen Joseph Gubbins of Stoneham, Hants and Kilfrush, Co Limerick. She had married the 9th Duke in May 1839, as his second wife (his first wife, the widow of the banker Coutts, had died without issue); her son was 10th Duke of Saint Albans.
On the death of the 10th Viscount 12 Mar 1884 the UK Barony (he was made Baron Hunsdon by William IV) expired.
FS 461: 2 & 3 Feb 1831: mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland
FT 547: 4 Feb 1831: mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland
GG 130: 31 Oct 1835: Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2): 2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood: bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson: bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington: bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd: bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”
In 1842 Lord Falkland first paid one third of the expense of cleaning the church (£1-15-11 ½d)
Lord Falkland gave £20 to School Acct 1874 – Barlow’s Notebook
Lord Falkland was a major landowner in Kirklevington; there the Archbishop of York held the advowson
In 1860 Lord Falkland added an acre of ground to the churchyard [Eddowes]
“Lord Falkland has come tonight” [letter from E Garbutt 17 Aug 1863: Letters to a Miller’s Daughter]
Date of Will 16 May 1874, executed in Paris
Date of death 12 Mar 1884
Place of death the Villa Nevet, Montpellier, buried in cemetery there
Date of Probate 13 Jun 1884
Value of estate gross personalty £2360-18-9d
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Friday 22 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Easby to Emerson
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Easby
DU 390: 2 & 3 Aug 1815: Thos Cust to Thos Newton, house, stable yard or garth in
Hutton, occ by Wm Carter, previously, and now by John Passman and Wm Easby
EH 212 & EG 295: relate to the same ppty: a house which had been divided into two tenements and in 1818 was “lately occupied in four different tenements or dwellinghouses”: tenants were previously Jane Whorlton & her tenants William Easby, Oliver Jackson & William Honeyman; tenants were in 1818 William Honeyman, Thomas Graham, Robert Walton and Robert Codling: bounded to E by Christopher Flintoff decd, to S & W by townstreet, to N by David Simpson decd
1823 Baines: Hutton: William Easby, schoolmaster
1823 Baines: Hutton: vict. Shoulder of Mutton
1841 Census: Ann Easby 50 ag lab born out of county and Thomas 13 ag lab, North Side
Ebleson
ET 604: 12 & 13 Sep 1823: 4a close in Hutton Moor, previously occ by Bart Wright now by Simon Sidgwick the weaver, bounded by 2 closes lastly sold to William Ebleson to S
Eden
7 Aug 1822: B D Suggitt left to James Eden, grocer & chandler, in his Will whatever sum Eden owed him at his death
1823 Baines: Hutton: James Eden, grocer & tallow chandler
FA 299: 5 & 6 Nov 1824: 2 houses with garden, orchard, shop & stable in Hutton, occ previously by John Horner & Thomasin Burton, then by Thomas Edmund & Thomas Dalkin, then by David Hebbron & John Wiles: parties: David Hebbron of Hutton butcher & Michael Hebdon of Stokesley weaver, James Eden of Hutton grocer, Simon Kelsey, Robert Longstaff of Broughton yeoman, William Driver of Yarm gent
31 Jan 1838: Sarah Allison 20 daughter of Jacob Allison labourer, married William Eden 22 tailor, son of Thomas Eden tailor [witnesses: Margaret Hebron, Edward Allison]
1841 Census: William Eden 25 journeyman tailor, Sarah 25, Scarlet 10 mths, with Mary Allison 13, North Side
1841 Census: Mary Eden 15 servant in household of George Wilson, Enterpen
1851 Census: William Eden 35 tailor b Thornton-le-Moor and Sarah 34 b Hutton, with son Scarlet 11 b Stockton, Thomas 9, Jane 6, Frances 4 “Sunday scholar” and William 2, the last four b Hutton
William Eden was the Primitive Methodist steward who made the return for the 1851 ecclesiastical census
Oddfellows Board: Bro: John Eden, Potto, 18 Oct 1871, a40
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Easby
DU 390: 2 & 3 Aug 1815: Thos Cust to Thos Newton, house, stable yard or garth in
Hutton, occ by Wm Carter, previously, and now by John Passman and Wm Easby
EH 212 & EG 295: relate to the same ppty: a house which had been divided into two tenements and in 1818 was “lately occupied in four different tenements or dwellinghouses”: tenants were previously Jane Whorlton & her tenants William Easby, Oliver Jackson & William Honeyman; tenants were in 1818 William Honeyman, Thomas Graham, Robert Walton and Robert Codling: bounded to E by Christopher Flintoff decd, to S & W by townstreet, to N by David Simpson decd
1823 Baines: Hutton: William Easby, schoolmaster
1823 Baines: Hutton: vict. Shoulder of Mutton
1841 Census: Ann Easby 50 ag lab born out of county and Thomas 13 ag lab, North Side
Ebleson
ET 604: 12 & 13 Sep 1823: 4a close in Hutton Moor, previously occ by Bart Wright now by Simon Sidgwick the weaver, bounded by 2 closes lastly sold to William Ebleson to S
Eden
7 Aug 1822: B D Suggitt left to James Eden, grocer & chandler, in his Will whatever sum Eden owed him at his death
1823 Baines: Hutton: James Eden, grocer & tallow chandler
FA 299: 5 & 6 Nov 1824: 2 houses with garden, orchard, shop & stable in Hutton, occ previously by John Horner & Thomasin Burton, then by Thomas Edmund & Thomas Dalkin, then by David Hebbron & John Wiles: parties: David Hebbron of Hutton butcher & Michael Hebdon of Stokesley weaver, James Eden of Hutton grocer, Simon Kelsey, Robert Longstaff of Broughton yeoman, William Driver of Yarm gent
31 Jan 1838: Sarah Allison 20 daughter of Jacob Allison labourer, married William Eden 22 tailor, son of Thomas Eden tailor [witnesses: Margaret Hebron, Edward Allison]
1841 Census: William Eden 25 journeyman tailor, Sarah 25, Scarlet 10 mths, with Mary Allison 13, North Side
1841 Census: Mary Eden 15 servant in household of George Wilson, Enterpen
1851 Census: William Eden 35 tailor b Thornton-le-Moor and Sarah 34 b Hutton, with son Scarlet 11 b Stockton, Thomas 9, Jane 6, Frances 4 “Sunday scholar” and William 2, the last four b Hutton
William Eden was the Primitive Methodist steward who made the return for the 1851 ecclesiastical census
Oddfellows Board: Bro: John Eden, Potto, 18 Oct 1871, a40
1887: memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]
Wednesday 20 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Dale to Dunning
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Dale
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Frederick Dale, F.R.C.S., surgeon, Enterpen
Frederick Dale M.D was the doctor who certified Mr Barlow’s death in 1878
Frederick Dale was born in Yarm, and baptised 13 Feb 1843. His parents were both from Yarm. He took the MRCS England in 1866, then MD at Edinburgh in 1867, where he had studied. In 1871 he was a widower with a housekeeper and groom and lived in Enterpen, but within months he had remarried, to Mary Weatherill [cf Letters to a Miller’s daughter]. The 1873 directories give his address as Layton House.
1877 & 1880 Medical Directories: medical officer for Hutton Rudby District of Stokesley Union
1881: he was succeeded by Dr Melvin as medical officer, and in the census is to be found in Stokesley, once more a widower, but now with three children under the age of 8 [cf Miller’s daughter], and practising from College Square. Directory entries show this address until 1885, adding that he was a certified factory doctor. Bickford’s Hull Medical Directory shows a Dr Frederick Dale, with the same qualifications, at 40 Charlotte Street, Hull, practising as an accoucheur in 1882. In 1886 the Medical Directory shows Dale at Weston super Mare, holding the posts of medical officer to the Great Western Railway, and to an Assurance Society (probably part-time posts) [Dr Geoffrey Stout]
Dale
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: Frederick Dale, F.R.C.S., surgeon, Enterpen
Frederick Dale M.D was the doctor who certified Mr Barlow’s death in 1878
Frederick Dale was born in Yarm, and baptised 13 Feb 1843. His parents were both from Yarm. He took the MRCS England in 1866, then MD at Edinburgh in 1867, where he had studied. In 1871 he was a widower with a housekeeper and groom and lived in Enterpen, but within months he had remarried, to Mary Weatherill [cf Letters to a Miller’s daughter]. The 1873 directories give his address as Layton House.
1877 & 1880 Medical Directories: medical officer for Hutton Rudby District of Stokesley Union
1881: he was succeeded by Dr Melvin as medical officer, and in the census is to be found in Stokesley, once more a widower, but now with three children under the age of 8 [cf Miller’s daughter], and practising from College Square. Directory entries show this address until 1885, adding that he was a certified factory doctor. Bickford’s Hull Medical Directory shows a Dr Frederick Dale, with the same qualifications, at 40 Charlotte Street, Hull, practising as an accoucheur in 1882. In 1886 the Medical Directory shows Dale at Weston super Mare, holding the posts of medical officer to the Great Western Railway, and to an Assurance Society (probably part-time posts) [Dr Geoffrey Stout]
Monday 18 March 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Coates to Cust
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Coates
William Coates was a former occupant of East Side property bought by Edmund Taylor from John and Ann Pape in 1808
DY 88 & ET 601: James Coates was a tenant of Philip Gowland in the Bay Horse area in 1816-1823
Robert Coates was churchwarden with James Catchasides in 1819
1823 Baines: Skutterskelfe: Robert Coates, Tame bridge, farmer
FT 511: 11 & 12 Jan 1830: East Side: Edmund Taylor of Hutton joiner, Thomas Eland of City of London currier, James Bainbridge bricklayer: the land on which James Bainbridge has lately erected 4 new houses & other buildings, 79 ft x 14 ft, and the passage thereto from the street: previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants: bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S: “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall and his wife Catherine”
William Coates was a tenant of East Side property apparently sold by Edmund Taylor to James Bainbridge in 1830
FU 261: 22 & 23 Nov 1831: north end of East Side: James Bainbridge bricklayer & Elizabeth his wife to George Grenside of Stokesley gent: piece of ground on which he had recently built 4 new houses and other buildings, 79ft long x 14ft wide, with the passage leading to them from the street: previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor, and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants: bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S: “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall & Catherine his wife”
1851 Census: North Side: Richard Coates 44 butcher b Castle Levington and Alice 54, also b Castle Levington, with children Ann 18 dressmaker and Robert 15, both b Hilton
Margaret Coates was in the informant on Mrs Barlow’s death certificate in 1852; she signed with her mark
Jun 1866: Two friends, G Coates & J Hogg, gave £5 to the subscription for Thomas Garbutt
Coates
William Coates was a former occupant of East Side property bought by Edmund Taylor from John and Ann Pape in 1808
DY 88 & ET 601: James Coates was a tenant of Philip Gowland in the Bay Horse area in 1816-1823
Robert Coates was churchwarden with James Catchasides in 1819
1823 Baines: Skutterskelfe: Robert Coates, Tame bridge, farmer
FT 511: 11 & 12 Jan 1830: East Side: Edmund Taylor of Hutton joiner, Thomas Eland of City of London currier, James Bainbridge bricklayer: the land on which James Bainbridge has lately erected 4 new houses & other buildings, 79 ft x 14 ft, and the passage thereto from the street: previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants: bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S: “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall and his wife Catherine”
William Coates was a tenant of East Side property apparently sold by Edmund Taylor to James Bainbridge in 1830
FU 261: 22 & 23 Nov 1831: north end of East Side: James Bainbridge bricklayer & Elizabeth his wife to George Grenside of Stokesley gent: piece of ground on which he had recently built 4 new houses and other buildings, 79ft long x 14ft wide, with the passage leading to them from the street: previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor, and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants: bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S: “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall & Catherine his wife”
1851 Census: North Side: Richard Coates 44 butcher b Castle Levington and Alice 54, also b Castle Levington, with children Ann 18 dressmaker and Robert 15, both b Hilton
Margaret Coates was in the informant on Mrs Barlow’s death certificate in 1852; she signed with her mark
Jun 1866: Two friends, G Coates & J Hogg, gave £5 to the subscription for Thomas Garbutt
Friday 15 March 2013
The Richardson brothers: Mayors of Stockton & Middlesbrough
In 1858, Dr John Richardson became mayor of the new industrial town of Middlesbrough.
They were brothers.
William and John Richardson were born near York. They both received their medical training at the University College Hospital, London.
William Richardson (1814-71) was the elder brother. He must have come to Stockton soon after qualifying, as he is to be found living on the North Side of Silver Street in the census of 1841 – and with him was his younger brother John, as “surgeon pupil.”
William was an important and active figure in the medical, civic and sporting life of Stockton.
He was surgeon to the Stockton Dispensary, a magistrate, alderman, and Mayor of Stockton in 1857-8. He was for many years the President of the Stockton Cricket Club. He was instrumental in running the Whitsuntide Sports held at the Cricket Ground and in reviving Stockton Races at the new site at Mandale in 1859.
He and his wife Ann lived at 65 High Street; it seems they did not have children.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
Descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby
My Canadian contact, the source of my information on the family of the Revd Thomas Todd and his wife Elizabeth Jackson, has begun a blog to share the family history information that she has gathered over the years.
So if there are any descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby and Lazenby out there, do keep an eye on Ancestral Road.
So if there are any descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby and Lazenby out there, do keep an eye on Ancestral Road.
Wednesday 6 March 2013
William Weatherill of Guisborough (1807-73)
The obituary of William Weatherill (1807-73) captures the social change of the 19th century. He was the second son of a Marske farmer – his father, also William, had the old Hob Hill Farm. He was born in the violent heyday of smuggling, and in his childhood illicit cargoes were run up from the Saltburn beaches and hidden in the clay holes near his home.
Smuggling was a huge illegal industry, as this report from the year of William’s birth shows:
Smuggling was a huge illegal industry, as this report from the year of William’s birth shows:
Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 26 January 1807
The smuggling trade on the north coast of Yorkshire, and on the opposite shores in Durham, has been carried on lately to a height almost beyond imagination. It is computed that upwards of eight or nine hundred tons of different kinds of goods were landed and run in the course of the last two months in the old year; a circumstance loudly calling for the attention of Government.Ten years later, there was little change in the situation:
Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 24 March 1817
A terrible engagement took place on Wednesday night, near Whitby, betwixt a revenue cutter and a smuggling vessel. – Both vessels, from the severity of the storm, were run ashore, four of the cutter’s men and seven of the smugglers were killed. Ten of the men belonging the latter went through York, unpursued, on Thursday and Friday, by the coaches for London.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
Thomas King of Kirkleatham, brewer & smuggler
Was Captain Thomas King of Wapping related to Thomas King of Kirkleatham?
No link has been found, but later descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby certainly speculated about a possible connection.
Thomas King of Kirkleatham was the partner of John Andrew, the famous smuggler of Saltburn.
Smuggling was from 1700 to 1850 an enormous illegal industry:
Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 26 December 1769
The work of the Revenue men was both unpopular and dangerous:Accounts from Redcar, Saltburn, and several other places on the Yorkshire coast, mention that the smuggling trade never was carried to so great a height as at present. The great number of country people that daily attend the coast, (and who seem to have no other employ but to convey off the goods) is almost incredible. – The revenue officers are very active, and have made several considerable seizures; yet notwithstanding their vigilance, it does not appear possible to suppress this pernicious trade, which is highly detrimental to the revenue and fair trader unless the Honourable Commssioners of his Majesty’s customs please to order a sufficient number of cutters with experienced commanders to be stationed upon the coast at proper distances: This would certainly have the desired effect, and also prevent wool and sheep being exported, which there is great reason to believe that those delinquents are frequently guilty of. – That our woollen manufactories have for several years past been upon the declension, is an alarming truth; and certain it is, that the French, thro’ the cheapness of labour, and (it’s to be feared) by getting materials from England, have been enabled to undersell us in foreign markets
Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 20 April 1773
Last week a smuggling cutter appeared off Witby [Whitby]: She is about 200 tons burthen, carries 14 carriage guns, besides swivels, &c. and about 50 stout men, several of whom were on shore near Saltburn, where they landed a great quantity of spirits, &c. and appear to be a very daring and desperate gang. – An officer belonging to the Customs near that place, endeavouring to seize some goods they had landed, very narrowly escaped with his life. – One of the King’s cutters gave chace to the smugglers, but finding the danger of such an attempt, thought it prudent to depart in peace. – It is now evident that there is no way to put a stop to this illicit practice, but by repelling force to force.
Occasionally the forces of law were successful. In the following case, the riding officers (mounted men charged with the duty of patrolling the coast) seized a fine cargo of gin and tea:
Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 31 January 1775
Thursday se’ennight Mr William Fenwick, of Marsk, and Mr Macdonald, of Skiningrave [Skinningrove], riding officers, attacked a smuggler’s long boat, full mann’d, near Saltburn, and seized 58 casks of geneva, and four large bags of fine tea, which they brought off in defiance of the whole crew, and lodged it in the Custom-House warehouse.
For a lively account of the life of a riding officer, have a look at The Worst Jobs in History: Two Thousand Years of Miserable Employment by Tony Robinson (of Time Team and Blackadder) and David Willock!
Sunday 3 March 2013
The Day Book of Thomas Jackson (1775-1834)
Thomas Jackson (1775-1834), son of George Jackson and Elizabeth King, farmed at Lackenby all his life. Over a period of years, he kept a Day Book, which was continued after his death by his son John (1808-94).
It is a book of notes and jottings (which may explain the spelling and punctuation) and covers a wide variety of subjects, including records of important family events, household accounts, details of court cases, and notes on farming matters.
There are many miscellaneous farming notes. He jots down the recipe given him by Robert Thompson for a horse “bad in is wind”:
It is a book of notes and jottings (which may explain the spelling and punctuation) and covers a wide variety of subjects, including records of important family events, household accounts, details of court cases, and notes on farming matters.
There are many miscellaneous farming notes. He jots down the recipe given him by Robert Thompson for a horse “bad in is wind”:
Robt Thompson Reseat [receipt]In 1806, he recorded the cost of a threshing machine:
A Medison for a Horse Bad in is wind take 4 ounces of Garlic 4 ounces of Tax 4 ounces of Flour of Brimstone shread the Garlic small and mix it together into Balls size of a small nutmeg and give it every other Morning The Horse may work as usual
1806 Feb 10 The following is an account of the expense of the Threshin Mushin that I Thos Jackson erected below Lackenby ………..£103. 3. 7
Thursday 28 February 2013
John Jackson and his uncle, Captain Thomas King (1748-1824)
continued from 'The Jackson family of Lazenby and Lackenby' ...
Thomas King, merchant of Wapping, played a hugely influential role in the life of the Jacksons of Lackenby during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
He was the brother-in-law of George Jackson (1746-1810) of Lackenby. George and his sister Dinah (1753-1819) had both married members of the King family: George married Elizabeth King (1752-82) in 1774 at Skelton, and Dinah married Robert King in 1783 at Wilton. (Elizabeth and Robert King were probably cousins.)
Elizabeth King and her elder brother Thomas were the children of Newark King and Elizabeth Boyes, who married in 1746. Thomas was baptised on 19 Feb 1748; he left home to go to sea and by 1766 he was second mate of the Royal Charlotte. He became an increasingly successful London merchant, and left the sea in 1780. He had a family of his own, but remained a powerful figure in the lives of his relatives in Cleveland.
He invested in property in the area – in 1783 he paid £1,200 for Lackenby Low Farm, which had belonged to another branch of the Jackson family. This was the year that Robert King married Dinah Jackson, and the farm was to be the home of Dinah King until her death in 1819; Thomas was perhaps coincidentally providing a home for the newly married couple. At that point his address was George Yard, near Tower Hill, Middlesex. Five years later, he sold the property to William Jackson of Guisborough for £1,300 [Kirkleatham Hall] and by then his address was Great Aliffe (Ayliffe) Street, Goodman’s Fields.
He would eventually have a counting house in London and a country seat in Wandsworth.
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| Captain Thomas King |
He was the brother-in-law of George Jackson (1746-1810) of Lackenby. George and his sister Dinah (1753-1819) had both married members of the King family: George married Elizabeth King (1752-82) in 1774 at Skelton, and Dinah married Robert King in 1783 at Wilton. (Elizabeth and Robert King were probably cousins.)
Elizabeth King and her elder brother Thomas were the children of Newark King and Elizabeth Boyes, who married in 1746. Thomas was baptised on 19 Feb 1748; he left home to go to sea and by 1766 he was second mate of the Royal Charlotte. He became an increasingly successful London merchant, and left the sea in 1780. He had a family of his own, but remained a powerful figure in the lives of his relatives in Cleveland.
He invested in property in the area – in 1783 he paid £1,200 for Lackenby Low Farm, which had belonged to another branch of the Jackson family. This was the year that Robert King married Dinah Jackson, and the farm was to be the home of Dinah King until her death in 1819; Thomas was perhaps coincidentally providing a home for the newly married couple. At that point his address was George Yard, near Tower Hill, Middlesex. Five years later, he sold the property to William Jackson of Guisborough for £1,300 [Kirkleatham Hall] and by then his address was Great Aliffe (Ayliffe) Street, Goodman’s Fields.
He would eventually have a counting house in London and a country seat in Wandsworth.
Wednesday 27 February 2013
The Jackson family of Lazenby and Lackenby
In the 18th and 19th centuries, a family called Jackson farmed at Lackenby and Lazenby, two small hamlets in the parish of Wilton, at the northernmost edge of the North Riding of Yorkshire. This low-lying land, stretching northwards to the mouth of the river Tees – and later mostly covered by ICI Wilton – was once known as the Lowside.
We are so used to the view of the petrochemical complex that inspired the opening scenes of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner that it is hard to imagine how empty and beautiful the place once was.
Here it is – before the Tees became an industrial river – described by the Revd John Graves in his History of Cleveland in 1808:
In the mid 20th century, a descendant of the Jacksons of Wilton compiled a family tree covering the 17th to 19th centuries, based on a collection of legal documents, information and artefacts that had remained in the family, and supplemented with research.
It was subsequently examined and extended by the late Miss Grace Dixon, local historian of Guisborough, with assistance from the Kirkleatham Museum, and then Grace Dixon and I worked on some specific areas of the story.
The early parts of the family tree remain imperfect, but nevertheless useful (perhaps particularly to those trying to disentangle the many Jacksons of Cleveland), and the later developments are very interesting. Where I can, I indicate sources; it is obviously open to correction, but will at least point to areas of investigation.
We are so used to the view of the petrochemical complex that inspired the opening scenes of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner that it is hard to imagine how empty and beautiful the place once was.
Here it is – before the Tees became an industrial river – described by the Revd John Graves in his History of Cleveland in 1808:
The village of Wilton is small, and consists of a few houses, seated on the northern declivity of a hill, the summit of which being nearly level, has been brought into cultivation; while the sides, rising abruptly, are ornamented with young and thriving plantations.
The grounds on the north from the village have an easy and gradual descent, and the prospect is extensive and pleasingly diversified: near at hand upon the right are seen the hospital and mansion, with the richly cultivated grounds of Kirkleatham, beyond which, tracing the circling line of shore to the left, the town of Hartlepool in a prominent position, with the bold figure of its church, affords a striking object; while the serpentine course of the river Tees, which on its approach towards the sea, expands itself into a fine extensive bay, is seen winding through a tract of rich and fertile grounds beneath, adding greatly to the beauty and interest of the general view.It was a small agricultural parish and, in 1801, consisted of 67 houses occupied by 74 families – a total of 328 people.
The lands within the parish consist nearly of an equal portion of arable, meadow, and pasture; and the soil in general a fertile clay; which, notwithstanding its northern aspect, and exposure to severe blasts from the sea, produces crops of wheat and other grain in great perfection, and the harvests in general are as early as in any of the more favoured parts of Cleveland.
The low grounds near the river Tees are principally in grass; as was formerly an extensive tract, which lay in common open fields, stretching from the village in a direction north and south; but, by the late inclosure, has been brought into a more advantageous state of cultivation.The Jacksons of Wilton were for the most part yeomen, that hardworking, prudent class that lay between the gentlemen and the petty farmers.
In the mid 20th century, a descendant of the Jacksons of Wilton compiled a family tree covering the 17th to 19th centuries, based on a collection of legal documents, information and artefacts that had remained in the family, and supplemented with research.
It was subsequently examined and extended by the late Miss Grace Dixon, local historian of Guisborough, with assistance from the Kirkleatham Museum, and then Grace Dixon and I worked on some specific areas of the story.
The early parts of the family tree remain imperfect, but nevertheless useful (perhaps particularly to those trying to disentangle the many Jacksons of Cleveland), and the later developments are very interesting. Where I can, I indicate sources; it is obviously open to correction, but will at least point to areas of investigation.
Monday 25 February 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in C18/19: Calvert to Chipchase
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Calvert
Robert Calvert was a previous occupant of property on East Side, bought by Joseph, Thomas & William Whorlton in 1808
Stephen Calvert is a Wesleyan class leader in 1836, 1838 and 1839 and was a subscriber to the Youth’s Instructor in 1840
He was the agent in Hutton for subscriptions to Cottager’s Friend in 1840: ordering “14 Nos at 1/1d”
He was the Steward for Hutton Rudby in 1840
He was the agent in Hutton for subscriptions to Cottager’s Friend in 1841, ordering 22, and for Child’s Magazine in 1841, ordering 3. He ordered 3 of the Missionary Notices.
Mr Calvert was a subscriber to the Shilling Magazine, Christian Miscellany, Early Days, Juvenile Offerings, and Missionary Notices: no date, apparently 1859
1851 Census: North End: Stephen Calvert single 57 handloom weaver linen b Hutton lodging with Ann Elliot 63 schoolmistress b Ayton Bank, Durham
Campion
Campion is listed in “Recpts for 1854” – Barlow’s Notebook
29 Apr 1841: Rudby church: Margaret Dobbin 35 spinster of Rudby, dau of William Dobbin farmer, married William Campion 40 bachelor, gentleman of Kirkleavington, son of John Campion Coates gentleman: witnesses Thomas Righton, John Dobbin
1851 Census: Ober Green farm: William Campion 49 farmer 75a, 3 labourers, b Whitby: Margaret Campion 42 b Picton: children: Ann 7 and William 8 both b Kirkleavington; with Margaret Dobbin 5 niece and visitor b Kirkleavington; servants: Catherine Christelor 14 b Harlsey, William Hedley 20 b HR, Robert Weatherill 16 b Hornby
Calvert
Robert Calvert was a previous occupant of property on East Side, bought by Joseph, Thomas & William Whorlton in 1808
Stephen Calvert is a Wesleyan class leader in 1836, 1838 and 1839 and was a subscriber to the Youth’s Instructor in 1840
He was the agent in Hutton for subscriptions to Cottager’s Friend in 1840: ordering “14 Nos at 1/1d”
He was the Steward for Hutton Rudby in 1840
He was the agent in Hutton for subscriptions to Cottager’s Friend in 1841, ordering 22, and for Child’s Magazine in 1841, ordering 3. He ordered 3 of the Missionary Notices.
Mr Calvert was a subscriber to the Shilling Magazine, Christian Miscellany, Early Days, Juvenile Offerings, and Missionary Notices: no date, apparently 1859
1851 Census: North End: Stephen Calvert single 57 handloom weaver linen b Hutton lodging with Ann Elliot 63 schoolmistress b Ayton Bank, Durham
Campion
Campion is listed in “Recpts for 1854” – Barlow’s Notebook
29 Apr 1841: Rudby church: Margaret Dobbin 35 spinster of Rudby, dau of William Dobbin farmer, married William Campion 40 bachelor, gentleman of Kirkleavington, son of John Campion Coates gentleman: witnesses Thomas Righton, John Dobbin
1851 Census: Ober Green farm: William Campion 49 farmer 75a, 3 labourers, b Whitby: Margaret Campion 42 b Picton: children: Ann 7 and William 8 both b Kirkleavington; with Margaret Dobbin 5 niece and visitor b Kirkleavington; servants: Catherine Christelor 14 b Harlsey, William Hedley 20 b HR, Robert Weatherill 16 b Hornby
Friday 22 February 2013
Snowstorms in 1900
With snow still lying on the moors and in the hedge-backs, and flakes of snow in the wind today, I thought now would be a good time to post this – which I found quite by accident yesterday.
In the first half of February 1900, Britain was hit by severe snowstorms causing great disruption for days.
On Friday 16 February, the Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough had the headlines:
In the first half of February 1900, Britain was hit by severe snowstorms causing great disruption for days.
On Friday 16 February, the Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough had the headlines:
HISTORY OF THE BLIZZARD
An Unparalleled Storm of Wind and Snow
NOT EXCEEDED DURING THE PRESENT GENERATION
EXCITING AND THRILLING EXPERIENCES
An Unparalleled Storm of Wind and Snow
NOT EXCEEDED DURING THE PRESENT GENERATION
EXCITING AND THRILLING EXPERIENCES
On Saturday 17 February, the report began:
THE GREAT STORM
Further Stories of Adventure and Suffering
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE
Trains Fast in Snowdrifts
BREAKDOWN OF COMMUNICATIONS
Further Stories of Adventure and Suffering
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE
Trains Fast in Snowdrifts
BREAKDOWN OF COMMUNICATIONS
One effect of the snowstorm is found in the delay to which news for Middlesbrough is being subjected. All telegrams are being sent by train. This accounts for the fact that the news of the relief of Kimberley, which was handed in in London yesterday morning to be sent over the wires in the usual way, has only been received by us to-day. We are in the appalling position, that, with the exception of a telegraph wire to West Hartlepool, there exists no other communication with anywhere, either by telephone or telegraph. We have been besieged by the elements, and are almost as completely isolated from the outside world as Ladysmith at the present time, or Kimberley until yesterday.
Thursday 21 February 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Bousfield to Busfield
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Bousfield
Oddfellows Board: Bro: P Bousfield, Hutton, 22 Apr 1853, a57 [farmer, JBTurner]
Bowes
Roger Bowes owned property on East Side: deeds of 1817 and 1830
EC 354: 30 Oct 1817: James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (2): 2 houses with garden behind, occ by James Bainbridge & John Simpson: bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S
FC 147: 14 Nov 1825: James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) Hutchinsons & Place bankers (2) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (3) Richard Nightingale the younger of Middleton St George (4): 2 houses, lately in 3 tenements, with garden behind, formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by James Bainbridge & John Simpson, now by James & John Bainbridge; and also 2 new erected houses now in 3 tenements lately erected by James Bainbridge in the garden, now occ by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd: all bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S
FL 58: 13 May 1827: East Side, judging by occupants & boundaries: 2 houses lately used in 3 tenements with garden behind formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Simpson, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Bainbridge: and the 2 houses used in 3 tenements “newly created” and “lately erected” by sd James Bainbridge in the sd garden, then occupied by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd: bounded by house and garden bel to Roger Bowes to E, by Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S: parties: Richard Nightingale the younger late of Middleton St George gent and George Stanger of Pickton farmer: reciting indre of 14 Nov 1825 to which James Bainbridge, George & John & Henry Hutchinson, Thomas Place, William Richmond and said Richard Nightingale were parties
Bousfield
Oddfellows Board: Bro: P Bousfield, Hutton, 22 Apr 1853, a57 [farmer, JBTurner]
Bowes
Roger Bowes owned property on East Side: deeds of 1817 and 1830
EC 354: 30 Oct 1817: James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (2): 2 houses with garden behind, occ by James Bainbridge & John Simpson: bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S
FC 147: 14 Nov 1825: James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) Hutchinsons & Place bankers (2) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (3) Richard Nightingale the younger of Middleton St George (4): 2 houses, lately in 3 tenements, with garden behind, formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by James Bainbridge & John Simpson, now by James & John Bainbridge; and also 2 new erected houses now in 3 tenements lately erected by James Bainbridge in the garden, now occ by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd: all bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S
FL 58: 13 May 1827: East Side, judging by occupants & boundaries: 2 houses lately used in 3 tenements with garden behind formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Simpson, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Bainbridge: and the 2 houses used in 3 tenements “newly created” and “lately erected” by sd James Bainbridge in the sd garden, then occupied by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd: bounded by house and garden bel to Roger Bowes to E, by Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S: parties: Richard Nightingale the younger late of Middleton St George gent and George Stanger of Pickton farmer: reciting indre of 14 Nov 1825 to which James Bainbridge, George & John & Henry Hutchinson, Thomas Place, William Richmond and said Richard Nightingale were parties
Monday 18 February 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Barker to Blacksmiths
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Barker
Yorkshire Poll Book 1807: Ayton: Mark Barker
Mark Barker benefited under the Will of Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall (1727-1806).
EB 102: 11 & 13 May 1816: Hutton manor & mill: assignmt to Barker
EX 146: 26 & 27 Nov 1823: Hutton manor, mill and [Manor House] farm
FQ 249: 13 & 14 Mar 1829: exors of Wayne to Barker: the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell; the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site; the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw: bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
FU 487: 16 May 1832: South Side, tithe map 194-6: John Passman of Hutton yeoman (1) James Robinson of Whorlton yeoman (2) Robert Pulman of Stockton gent [solicitor] (3): building with cowhouse & premises adjoining, and garth of 2r adjoining to the N: bounded by Jane Farnaby to E, by Mrs Hildreth to W, by street to N, by Mark Barker to S: occ by John Passman & James Harrison & Mary Kingston; and the house with garden adjoining, bounded by street to E & N, and by above prems to W & S
1805: 4 Oct: murder of Margaret Barker: a spinster of Hutton Rudby aged about 46, who made a living for herself and her aged parents by travelling in the neighbourhood with housewife cloth for sail, she was staying at the house of Thomas Wilson, journeyman smith, in Stockton, when he murdered her in the night, apparently in mistake for his stepdaughter
1823 Baines: Hutton: Joseph Barker, farmer & gamekeeper
Mark Barker leased the site of the National Schoolhouse to the trustees for 5/- p.a [Lease for 999 years 10 Mar 1836]
Mark Barker made his Will on 18 Aug 1838, and was bur 24 Jan 1839 a72 at Stokesley [NBI Beryl] [HR Wills]
Tithe Map: Edward Meynell occupied the Carpenters Arms, owned by Mark Barker
Tithe Map: William Meynell and others occupied Barkers Row
Tithe Map: Mark Barker owned Manor House farm, occupied by James Longstaff
Mark Barker named Edward Meynell the younger, weaver, and William Passman farmer of Carlton as his executors; Meynell renounced probate.
1841 Census: William Barker 75 linen weaver and Margaret Barker 30 linen weaver, South Side
1841 Census: Mary Barker 30 and children, South Side
1841 Census: Thomas Barker 40 linen weaver and Jane 35, South Side
1841 Census: Butter Hill: Dorothy Barker 75 in household of John Garfat
1851 Census: North End: Thomas Barker 53 hand loom weaver linen, b Hutton, Jane 50 b Liverton, niece Elizabeth Barker 12 house servant and uncle William Whorlton single 80 hand loom weaver linen, both b Hutton
1859 Whellan: Hutton Rudby: Mr Mark Barker is Lord of the Manor and resides in the Manor House, a small farmhouse, situated about a mile west of Hutton
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: William Barker, butter dealer
Barker
Yorkshire Poll Book 1807: Ayton: Mark Barker
Mark Barker benefited under the Will of Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall (1727-1806).
EB 102: 11 & 13 May 1816: Hutton manor & mill: assignmt to Barker
EX 146: 26 & 27 Nov 1823: Hutton manor, mill and [Manor House] farm
FQ 249: 13 & 14 Mar 1829: exors of Wayne to Barker: the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell; the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site; the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw: bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W
FT 30: 12 & 13 May 1830: East Side: John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees: house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt: bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N
FU 487: 16 May 1832: South Side, tithe map 194-6: John Passman of Hutton yeoman (1) James Robinson of Whorlton yeoman (2) Robert Pulman of Stockton gent [solicitor] (3): building with cowhouse & premises adjoining, and garth of 2r adjoining to the N: bounded by Jane Farnaby to E, by Mrs Hildreth to W, by street to N, by Mark Barker to S: occ by John Passman & James Harrison & Mary Kingston; and the house with garden adjoining, bounded by street to E & N, and by above prems to W & S
1805: 4 Oct: murder of Margaret Barker: a spinster of Hutton Rudby aged about 46, who made a living for herself and her aged parents by travelling in the neighbourhood with housewife cloth for sail, she was staying at the house of Thomas Wilson, journeyman smith, in Stockton, when he murdered her in the night, apparently in mistake for his stepdaughter
1823 Baines: Hutton: Joseph Barker, farmer & gamekeeper
Mark Barker leased the site of the National Schoolhouse to the trustees for 5/- p.a [Lease for 999 years 10 Mar 1836]
Mark Barker made his Will on 18 Aug 1838, and was bur 24 Jan 1839 a72 at Stokesley [NBI Beryl] [HR Wills]
Tithe Map: Edward Meynell occupied the Carpenters Arms, owned by Mark Barker
Tithe Map: William Meynell and others occupied Barkers Row
Tithe Map: Mark Barker owned Manor House farm, occupied by James Longstaff
Mark Barker named Edward Meynell the younger, weaver, and William Passman farmer of Carlton as his executors; Meynell renounced probate.
1841 Census: William Barker 75 linen weaver and Margaret Barker 30 linen weaver, South Side
1841 Census: Mary Barker 30 and children, South Side
1841 Census: Thomas Barker 40 linen weaver and Jane 35, South Side
1841 Census: Butter Hill: Dorothy Barker 75 in household of John Garfat
1851 Census: North End: Thomas Barker 53 hand loom weaver linen, b Hutton, Jane 50 b Liverton, niece Elizabeth Barker 12 house servant and uncle William Whorlton single 80 hand loom weaver linen, both b Hutton
1859 Whellan: Hutton Rudby: Mr Mark Barker is Lord of the Manor and resides in the Manor House, a small farmhouse, situated about a mile west of Hutton
1872 Post Office Directory: Hutton Rudby: William Barker, butter dealer
Saturday 16 February 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Bage to Bainbridge
... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013
Bage
John Bage occupied a house and garth or yard on East Side, bought by Joseph, Thomas & William Whorlton in 1808 [East Side deeds]
FS 461: 2 & 3 Feb 1831: Thomas Bage had been a tenant of Rudby estate
1841 Census: Jane Bage 11 and younger siblings, Enterpen
George Davison (1790-1860) shoemaker, Rudby, married Ann Bage (1780-1853). He left £450 on his death. Buried in Rudby. Their children were Ann and George. Ann (1816-1855) married Thomas Stringer. George (1817-1871), shoe maker, Rudby, married Mary Ann Mundell (1817-1882) Buried in Rudby (issue).
Bage
John Bage occupied a house and garth or yard on East Side, bought by Joseph, Thomas & William Whorlton in 1808 [East Side deeds]
FS 461: 2 & 3 Feb 1831: Thomas Bage had been a tenant of Rudby estate
1841 Census: Jane Bage 11 and younger siblings, Enterpen
George Davison (1790-1860) shoemaker, Rudby, married Ann Bage (1780-1853). He left £450 on his death. Buried in Rudby. Their children were Ann and George. Ann (1816-1855) married Thomas Stringer. George (1817-1871), shoe maker, Rudby, married Mary Ann Mundell (1817-1882) Buried in Rudby (issue).
Thursday 14 February 2013
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Ableson to Ayresome
from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed, and for explanatory notes see my earlier post ...
Ableson
Thomas Ableson was the first schoolmaster of the Bathurst school, died in 1750 and was succeeded by his son William [Hastings]
William Ableson d 1782 a 63, Master of Rudby School, d of asthma [PRs]
10 Oct 1789 William Ableson admitted and licensed to teach a Petty or English School in Hutton Rudby [Borthwick faculties etc 1768-1793]
Yorkshire Poll Book 1807: Hutton Rudby: William Ableson schoolmaster
GG 130: 31 Oct 1835: Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2): 2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood: bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson: bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington: bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd: bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”
Ableson
Thomas Ableson was the first schoolmaster of the Bathurst school, died in 1750 and was succeeded by his son William [Hastings]
William Ableson d 1782 a 63, Master of Rudby School, d of asthma [PRs]
10 Oct 1789 William Ableson admitted and licensed to teach a Petty or English School in Hutton Rudby [Borthwick faculties etc 1768-1793]
Yorkshire Poll Book 1807: Hutton Rudby: William Ableson schoolmaster
GG 130: 31 Oct 1835: Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2): 2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood: bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson: bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington: bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd: bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”
People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19 - explanatory note
As I work through my archives, I thought I would post some more information from my working notes ...
While I was working on Remarkable, but still True I amassed a great deal of information about inhabitants of Hutton Rudby in the C18 and C19.
I can't guarantee accuracy, but I know from experience that people researching their family history have found these notes useful, so I will reproduce them on this blog.
There is a certain fascination in browsing through them, as they include information from a variety of sources and build up a unique picture of village life in the past, but they are really intended for reference. They consist mostly of surnames but also include general categories such as Skutterskelfe workers, blacksmiths and parish clerks.
They may appear slightly cryptic - they were only intended for my use.
While I was working on Remarkable, but still True I amassed a great deal of information about inhabitants of Hutton Rudby in the C18 and C19.
I can't guarantee accuracy, but I know from experience that people researching their family history have found these notes useful, so I will reproduce them on this blog.
There is a certain fascination in browsing through them, as they include information from a variety of sources and build up a unique picture of village life in the past, but they are really intended for reference. They consist mostly of surnames but also include general categories such as Skutterskelfe workers, blacksmiths and parish clerks.
They may appear slightly cryptic - they were only intended for my use.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
Christopher Rowntree of Middleton-on-Leven
My post of 8 February mentions Christopher Rowntree, who went to court to prove he was a gentleman.
The story is told in The Church & Parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland by the Rev Arthur Eddowes (1924):
The story is told in The Church & Parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland by the Rev Arthur Eddowes (1924):
The following account of a Middleton "worthy" is copied from one of the many interesting "sporting" articles contributed by Mr Fairfax Blakeborough in the Darlington and Stockton Times:–
Mr Rowntree, – a famous Cleveland fox-hunter and racing man, – is perhaps the only man in England who had a trial at law to prove that he was a gentleman. He won a gentleman's race at Stokesley and the prize was withheld on an objection being raised that he was not eligible for the race, not being, – it was argued, – a gentleman according to the general acceptance of the term and meant to be implied in the conditions of the race. The trial took place before Mr Baron Thompson at York in 1803 and the following is an account of it written at the time:–
“At an Assize trial held at York to decide whether one Christopher Rowntree, of Middleton-on-Leven, the celebrated fox-hunter, was a “gentleman," the only evidence against him was that he was blind of one eye, wore leather breeches, and when he came to Stokesley market dined at an ordinary with the farmers at one shilling or eighteen-pence a head, – the best joints of meat there never being sold by butchers at more than fourpence a pound, and eggs being retailed in our market at twopence a dozen during the season.As to his worldly wealth, and unblemished character, these were fully admitted by his opponent (though they doubted whether he could be said to keep a pack of foxhounds, as each of his tenants fed a few, and the horn was blown to gather them together when they had to assemble for a hunt).The counsel on behalf of Christophr. Rowntree declared that a gentleman remained such wherever he dined. Those wishing to hold from him that title to which his client possessed every just claim ought to prove, – not where he dined and paid, but whether he dined and left without paying, then, – guilty of such an act as that, – he would have lost all right to have been considered a gentleman. They, – his opponents, – should have proved not that he went about in leather breeches, but without any at all, then that truly would have stamped his client as no gentleman.”
Sunday 10 February 2013
"Hooivver did oor farms get t'neeams ther've got?"
My last post about Middleton-on-Leven, with its mention of Goslingmire farm, reminded me of some verses from Bill Cowley's delightful book Cleveland Calendar: Seasons of the Year in North-East England.
It is illustrated with evocative line drawings by Bernard Fearnley; it can be bought second-hand.
Here are the lines:
It is illustrated with evocative line drawings by Bernard Fearnley; it can be bought second-hand.
Here are the lines:
Hooivver did oor farms get t'neeams ther've got?
High Paradise, Holme, Slapewath, Seldom Seen,
Steeanstoup an' Goslingmire – a canny spot –
Spyknave, Stank, Hesketh, Raikes – an Gowton Green.
Friday 8 February 2013
St Cuthbert's church, Middleton-on-Leven
On 22 & 23 June 2002, a Flower Festival was held in St Cuthbert’s church at Middleton-on-Leven.
Refreshments & light lunches were on offer, and the weekend finished with a Thanksgiving Service at 5 o’clock followed by a barbecue.
The flower displays and information boards on show around the building reflected aspects of the church’s history and current life in the community; proceeds were to the church fabric and the new carpet.
The explanatory leaflet included a brief history of the village and church. I feel sure it was written by the vicar, Canon David Lickess (now retired), and hope he will not mind me reproducing it here, as there is so little information on Middleton available online.
Refreshments & light lunches were on offer, and the weekend finished with a Thanksgiving Service at 5 o’clock followed by a barbecue.
The flower displays and information boards on show around the building reflected aspects of the church’s history and current life in the community; proceeds were to the church fabric and the new carpet.
The explanatory leaflet included a brief history of the village and church. I feel sure it was written by the vicar, Canon David Lickess (now retired), and hope he will not mind me reproducing it here, as there is so little information on Middleton available online.
Wednesday 6 February 2013
The 'Skirt Dance' of the two Savile Clarke girls
When I finished work on the articles on the Savile Clarkes, I contacted Leeds Art Gallery, who own J-E Blanche's painting of Maggie and Kitty.
I wasn't sure how much information the Art Gallery had on the sitters, as both the Public Catalogue Foundation's book and the BBC Your Paintings website record the title simply as The Savile Clarke girls. The curator tells me that they did indeed know of the painting as The 'Skirt Dance' of the two Savile Clarke girls, but my additional information will be added to the files (as it's interesting and useful – what more could I ask?!)
If you have a longing to see the beautiful sisters, they are currently on show at Lotherton Hall.
Update 4 July 2014: for information on Jacques-Emile Blanche, see Artist in Focus (July 2014) on the Public Catalogue Foundation website
Update 26 November 2019: the Public Catalogue Foundation and BBC Your Paintings website is now Art UK, and the Savile Clarke girls can be found here
I wasn't sure how much information the Art Gallery had on the sitters, as both the Public Catalogue Foundation's book and the BBC Your Paintings website record the title simply as The Savile Clarke girls. The curator tells me that they did indeed know of the painting as The 'Skirt Dance' of the two Savile Clarke girls, but my additional information will be added to the files (as it's interesting and useful – what more could I ask?!)
If you have a longing to see the beautiful sisters, they are currently on show at Lotherton Hall.
Update 4 July 2014: for information on Jacques-Emile Blanche, see Artist in Focus (July 2014) on the Public Catalogue Foundation website
Update 26 November 2019: the Public Catalogue Foundation and BBC Your Paintings website is now Art UK, and the Savile Clarke girls can be found here
Tuesday 5 February 2013
Helen Savile Clarke and her daughters
Continuing the story of Henry Savile Clarke and his family ...
When Henry Savile Clarke died in 1893, his wife Helen Weatherill was 53 years old. During the 1880s, she had developed an artistic career of her own.
By 1880, when Helen reached the age of forty, her family had become sadly diminished.
Her brother William had died at school in London when she was eleven. Her younger sister Clara (after whom she named her eldest daughter) had been fatally injured in a fire caused by a candle igniting her clothing in the year before Helen married.
Her eldest brother George Jackson Weatherill had died in 1872, the year of her daughter Kitty’s birth; his conduct had brought his married life to an end when his wife divorced him and he seems to have died in Australia. Her father died the following year, and her mother in late May 1880.
It seems that her younger sister Emma, who had never married, then came to London – she died at Helen’s house on 26 September, aged 38. Her elder sister Anne Louise, whose first marriage had been to Henry Savile Clarke’s father, was to die in Guisborough in 1882.
There was a younger brother, John Charles Weatherill, of whom little is remembered or known. He seems to have encountered difficulties, as their mother had left to Helen the “Prize books” given to him by the Corporation of Plymouth and £5 to be given to him at Helen’s discretion. Anne Louise’s Will, made in 1881, left £1,000 in trust for John Charles “for his personal enjoyment and not to become the property of his alienees or creditors”, so possibly he was a bankrupt.
Three of Helen’s four close cousins in Guisborough (their mothers being sisters, and their fathers brothers) had died, and her cousin Kate was to die leaving three small children in 1884. Only Helen’s eldest sister Margaret Elizabeth survived into the 20th century.
It must have seemed to Helen all the more important to follow and develop her own talents as an artist while she could. Perhaps she took advice on her plans from her relatives, the artists Mary and Sarah Ellen Weatherill [cf blog post of 29 November 2012]. They were five or so years older than she, and they both studied in London.
When Henry Savile Clarke died in 1893, his wife Helen Weatherill was 53 years old. During the 1880s, she had developed an artistic career of her own.
By 1880, when Helen reached the age of forty, her family had become sadly diminished.
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| Helen Savile Clarke with one of her daughters |
Her eldest brother George Jackson Weatherill had died in 1872, the year of her daughter Kitty’s birth; his conduct had brought his married life to an end when his wife divorced him and he seems to have died in Australia. Her father died the following year, and her mother in late May 1880.
It seems that her younger sister Emma, who had never married, then came to London – she died at Helen’s house on 26 September, aged 38. Her elder sister Anne Louise, whose first marriage had been to Henry Savile Clarke’s father, was to die in Guisborough in 1882.
There was a younger brother, John Charles Weatherill, of whom little is remembered or known. He seems to have encountered difficulties, as their mother had left to Helen the “Prize books” given to him by the Corporation of Plymouth and £5 to be given to him at Helen’s discretion. Anne Louise’s Will, made in 1881, left £1,000 in trust for John Charles “for his personal enjoyment and not to become the property of his alienees or creditors”, so possibly he was a bankrupt.
Three of Helen’s four close cousins in Guisborough (their mothers being sisters, and their fathers brothers) had died, and her cousin Kate was to die leaving three small children in 1884. Only Helen’s eldest sister Margaret Elizabeth survived into the 20th century.
It must have seemed to Helen all the more important to follow and develop her own talents as an artist while she could. Perhaps she took advice on her plans from her relatives, the artists Mary and Sarah Ellen Weatherill [cf blog post of 29 November 2012]. They were five or so years older than she, and they both studied in London.
Sunday 3 February 2013
Henry Savile Clarke (1841-93)
Henry Savile Clarke was the eldest child of the Rev Henry Clarke of Guisborough (1813-61) and his wife Catherine Dawson (c1819-52). Baptised by his father on the day of his birth, 14 February 1841, he spent the first months of his life at the house then called Long Hull. At that time there was no parsonage house for the vicar of Guisborough, and Henry Clarke must have rented Long Hull from the Chaloner family. We know it now as Gisborough Hall.
By 1842, the Clarkes had moved to Sunnyfield House on Westgate, with ample room for the five children who followed – four sons and a daughter – before the untimely death of their mother in 1852 at the age of 33.
By 1842, the Clarkes had moved to Sunnyfield House on Westgate, with ample room for the five children who followed – four sons and a daughter – before the untimely death of their mother in 1852 at the age of 33.
Henry’s brother “Jock” Clarke [1] (baptised John William), was a year his junior. He became agent for the Guisborough estate and was well known for his rather malicious wit. Arthur Dawson Clarke was born a year later. He became a clergyman, lecturer and tutor, writing books on geography and mathematics for candidates for Army, Woolwich and Civil Service examinations. Francis Savile Clarke was the next child; he studied music in London and returned to Guisborough to teach. Cecil James Clarke was born in 1846; he became an estate agent and lived in the South of England. Lastly, there was the only daughter, Kathleen Ann Augusta Clarke. She left the North East and married Arthur Edward Prescott, a land agent. She was left a widow with four children at the age of 40.
Henry Savile Clarke was blessed with good looks, energy, ability and a private income from his late mother. He went to Edinburgh to study medicine and there became caught up in the world of journalism.
Guisborough’s link to Lewis Carroll: Henry Savile Clarke (1841-93) and his family
While my original piece on Annie Weatherill’s 1863 diary (for which, see my blog post of 1 December 2012) was to be found on my previous website (www.jakesbarn.co.uk) I was contacted by Dr Tony Nicholson of Teesside University.
Tony provided me with fascinating information regarding Henry Savile Clarke, the husband of Annie’s cousin Helen Weatherill.
In particular, he told me of Lewis Carroll’s correspondence with the Savile Clarke daughters, and of the further connection that linked the Savile Clarkes to President Franklin D Roosevelt.
This was such exciting news! I have at last been able to complete my own research on it, which I'm going to start posting.
I think it is a story especially worth telling because there are inaccuracies in some already published accounts – in particular, writers have confused Helen Weatherill with her daughter Clara Savile Clarke – and also because Clara deserves wider notice.
All the family – including the younger sisters Maggie and Kitty – attracted press attention in their day, but with Clara's early death, a promising literary talent was lost.
Certainly a great deal of research remains to be done into the Savile Clarkes, and I hope someone will do it – my work has been done from the warmth of home and the comfort of the sofa, and largely limited to internet resources. In particular, I have found the British Newspaper Archive very useful.
(Subscribers to www.findmypast.co.uk have access to the archive, but a much better search facility is available through a subscription to the archive’s own website.)
My account includes numerous hyperlinks, and I hope you find them useful.
I think they are especially valuable in linking to work by Clara Savile Clarke that would otherwise be hard to find, but I have also made full use of them to reduce the number of footnotes, and to convey a wider picture of the times to readers who perhaps may not be familiar with the period.
Part 2 of this series of posts is here
Tony provided me with fascinating information regarding Henry Savile Clarke, the husband of Annie’s cousin Helen Weatherill.
In particular, he told me of Lewis Carroll’s correspondence with the Savile Clarke daughters, and of the further connection that linked the Savile Clarkes to President Franklin D Roosevelt.
This was such exciting news! I have at last been able to complete my own research on it, which I'm going to start posting.
I think it is a story especially worth telling because there are inaccuracies in some already published accounts – in particular, writers have confused Helen Weatherill with her daughter Clara Savile Clarke – and also because Clara deserves wider notice.
All the family – including the younger sisters Maggie and Kitty – attracted press attention in their day, but with Clara's early death, a promising literary talent was lost.
Certainly a great deal of research remains to be done into the Savile Clarkes, and I hope someone will do it – my work has been done from the warmth of home and the comfort of the sofa, and largely limited to internet resources. In particular, I have found the British Newspaper Archive very useful.
(Subscribers to www.findmypast.co.uk have access to the archive, but a much better search facility is available through a subscription to the archive’s own website.)
My account includes numerous hyperlinks, and I hope you find them useful.
I think they are especially valuable in linking to work by Clara Savile Clarke that would otherwise be hard to find, but I have also made full use of them to reduce the number of footnotes, and to convey a wider picture of the times to readers who perhaps may not be familiar with the period.
Part 2 of this series of posts is here
Friday 1 February 2013
Violent robbery on the footpath from Seamer to Stokesley, 1806
Having read how Thomas Wilson and William Orton escaped hanging in 1805 and 1821, the result of this local crime may come as a surprise.
The report gives a vivid glimpse of life in Cleveland during the Napoleonic Wars.
It is very likely that the victim of Thomas Richardson's assault was Matthew Milburn, rather than Melbourn, and that the place recorded by the reporter as 'Life' is in fact Lythe. Similarly, 'Kilden' is probably a mishearing for Kildale (the final syllable of Kildale being unstressed in the dialect).
Country bank notes (that is, local bank notes) again feature in this story ...
The report gives a vivid glimpse of life in Cleveland during the Napoleonic Wars.
It is very likely that the victim of Thomas Richardson's assault was Matthew Milburn, rather than Melbourn, and that the place recorded by the reporter as 'Life' is in fact Lythe. Similarly, 'Kilden' is probably a mishearing for Kildale (the final syllable of Kildale being unstressed in the dialect).
Country bank notes (that is, local bank notes) again feature in this story ...
Wednesday 30 January 2013
William Orton of Hutton Rudby – and New South Wales
In my blog post of 27 January I recounted the fate of William Orton of Hutton Rudby, found guilty of forgery and transported for life to New South Wales.
As Geoff (his descendant) said in his comment on the post, they did wonder what had happened to William ...
So naturally Geoff set immediately to work on the new information and he has just contacted me with this:
Morning Chronicle (Sydney, New South Wales), Wednesday 17th September 1845
Could it be William of Hutton Rudby again, resorting to forgery after years of excellent behaviour and now aged 67?
Still, I'm glad to think he was flourishing out there, though two years in Parramatta Gaol can't have been fun for a chap in his late sixties.
Meanwhile, back in Hutton Rudby – with everybody knowing their story, which must have been difficult in its own way – his wife Elizabeth and their daughters got on with their lives ... I wonder if they ever heard from William?
As Geoff (his descendant) said in his comment on the post, they did wonder what had happened to William ...
So naturally Geoff set immediately to work on the new information and he has just contacted me with this:
Morning Chronicle (Sydney, New South Wales), Wednesday 17th September 1845
William Orton was indicted for having, at Black Creek, on the 26th of April 1845, passed certain forged orders, each for £1, drawn on John Welsh, with intent to defraud William Jones.
The jury found a verdict of guilty, but in consequence of having received a most excellent character, his Honor sentenced him to the lightest punishment which the law allowed, namely, two years imprisonment in Parramatta gaol.
Could it be William of Hutton Rudby again, resorting to forgery after years of excellent behaviour and now aged 67?
Still, I'm glad to think he was flourishing out there, though two years in Parramatta Gaol can't have been fun for a chap in his late sixties.
Meanwhile, back in Hutton Rudby – with everybody knowing their story, which must have been difficult in its own way – his wife Elizabeth and their daughters got on with their lives ... I wonder if they ever heard from William?
Tuesday 29 January 2013
Shocking murder of Margaret Barker, 1805
I know this story has been retold at least once in the local press, but not for some time, and I think not always in full detail.
In the autumn of 1805, a week before the Battle of Trafalgar, newspapers across England picked up the news of a shocking murder that had taken place in Stockton-on-Tees. The victim was a woman from Hutton Rudby.
This version, from the Leeds Intelligencer of Monday 14 October, tells the tale:
A week later, the story turned out to be rather different.
In the autumn of 1805, a week before the Battle of Trafalgar, newspapers across England picked up the news of a shocking murder that had taken place in Stockton-on-Tees. The victim was a woman from Hutton Rudby.
This version, from the Leeds Intelligencer of Monday 14 October, tells the tale:
On Tuesday night a shocking murder was committed, at Stockton-upon-Tees, upon a young woman of the name of Barker, who had gone from Hutton Rudby, near Stokesley, where she resided, to sell some Cleveland cloth for a manufacturer and neighbour of the name of Webster.
She retired to rest between nine and ten o’clock, and at midnight the inhuman wretches where she lodged, and to whom she was no stranger, nearly severed her head from her body with a case knife, and soon after twelve were seen attempting to remove the body, in order to throw it into the river.
The man, his wife and daughter, were all immediately secured.A young woman murdered in her sleep, the victim of a dreadful conspiracy by the family whom she had trusted?
A week later, the story turned out to be rather different.
Sunday 27 January 2013
William Orton of Hutton Rudby & the forged Boroughbridge Bank note: 1821
A man named William Orton lived on the east end of North Side, Hutton Rudby at the beginning of the 19th century.
He had obviously been a substantial property owner, because title deeds of 1815 relating to land belonging to the late Thomas Tweddle of Middleton show that Orton had sold Tweddle several houses, garths and gardens in the area of the Bay Horse [1].
It seems likely that he was the father of the William Orton, described as being the son of William Orton, who was baptised at Hutton Rudby on 8 December 1778.
The account that follows is almost certainly about the William who was born in 1778. He would have been aged about 43 at the time of this story.
In March 1821, William Orton of Hutton Rudby was tried at the York Assizes. He was charged with altering a banknote and knowingly passing an altered banknote – both offences that carried the death penalty.
He had used forged notes to buy two heifers from a farmer at Thirsk Fair, claiming that his name was Wilson and that he lived in Goodramgate in York. As a result of this, George Brigham [see Chapter 5 of Remarkable, but still True] had to appear in court to confirm Orton's true identity.
He had obviously been a substantial property owner, because title deeds of 1815 relating to land belonging to the late Thomas Tweddle of Middleton show that Orton had sold Tweddle several houses, garths and gardens in the area of the Bay Horse [1].
It seems likely that he was the father of the William Orton, described as being the son of William Orton, who was baptised at Hutton Rudby on 8 December 1778.
The account that follows is almost certainly about the William who was born in 1778. He would have been aged about 43 at the time of this story.
In March 1821, William Orton of Hutton Rudby was tried at the York Assizes. He was charged with altering a banknote and knowingly passing an altered banknote – both offences that carried the death penalty.
He had used forged notes to buy two heifers from a farmer at Thirsk Fair, claiming that his name was Wilson and that he lived in Goodramgate in York. As a result of this, George Brigham [see Chapter 5 of Remarkable, but still True] had to appear in court to confirm Orton's true identity.
Friday 25 January 2013
Five guinea note from the Boroughbridge Bank
This is a photograph of a photograph.It shows a five-guinea (£5 5s 0d) note from the Boroughbridge Bank.
A note on the reverse of the framed photograph records that at the end of the 19th century the original banknote was in the possession of Joseph Stubbs of Boroughbridge. He was a grandson of the Thomas Stubbs named on the note.
Thomas Stubbs (1761-1838) was a grocer, tea dealer and wine & spirit merchant. His home and business premises were known as the Bridge Foot – they are the buildings depicted on the bank note. According to Bishop Stubbs of Oxford, the house stood on the site of the Battle of Boroughbridge 1322.
Stubbs was one of the four partners who owned the Boroughbridge Bank. The others were Hugh Stott of Boroughbridge, Humphrey Fletcher of Minskip, and Thomas Dew of Boroughbridge. The articles of partnership establishing the Bank were signed on 8 May 1814, but the bank may have been in existence for some time before that date – the partnership agreement may have been a formalisation of an existing situation. The bank had branches in Boroughbridge and Northallerton.
Wednesday 23 January 2013
Will of Mark Barker of Great Ayton, 1838
Another Will held at the Borthwick Institute. Again, from my working notes and accuracy not guaranteed.
Notes and details of Mark Barker's heirs and successors, Mark Barker Passman and Henry Passman, and their mother Sarah, follow the details of the Will.
Mark Barker had been a servant of Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall.
This country house once stood between Stokesley and Great Ayton, but was demolished in 1832. According to John Fairfax-Blakeborough, this was because it was haunted. Only its gate piers survive, removed from their original position to a new site outside the Stokesley Manor House.
We are keenly awaiting Peter Meadows' revised booklet on the subject, but in the meantime notes from his earlier account can be found here, with descriptions and maps.
On his death in 1806, Thomas Wayne left considerable property to Mark Barker, who found himself a property owner in Hutton Rudby and Lord of the Manor of Hutton. Barker's Row is named after him, and he provided the site for the village school built by Mr Barlow.
He left his estate to a boy called Mark Barker Passman, who is widely believed to have been his son by Sarah Passman. Mark Barker Passman died at the age of 32 and in turn left the property to his half-brother Henry Passman. Henry farmed at Manor House Farm (on the road between Hutton Rudby and Crathorne) until he retired to live on North Side, a little way up from the Bay Horse.
Notes and details of Mark Barker's heirs and successors, Mark Barker Passman and Henry Passman, and their mother Sarah, follow the details of the Will.
Mark Barker had been a servant of Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall.
This country house once stood between Stokesley and Great Ayton, but was demolished in 1832. According to John Fairfax-Blakeborough, this was because it was haunted. Only its gate piers survive, removed from their original position to a new site outside the Stokesley Manor House.
We are keenly awaiting Peter Meadows' revised booklet on the subject, but in the meantime notes from his earlier account can be found here, with descriptions and maps.
On his death in 1806, Thomas Wayne left considerable property to Mark Barker, who found himself a property owner in Hutton Rudby and Lord of the Manor of Hutton. Barker's Row is named after him, and he provided the site for the village school built by Mr Barlow.
He left his estate to a boy called Mark Barker Passman, who is widely believed to have been his son by Sarah Passman. Mark Barker Passman died at the age of 32 and in turn left the property to his half-brother Henry Passman. Henry farmed at Manor House Farm (on the road between Hutton Rudby and Crathorne) until he retired to live on North Side, a little way up from the Bay Horse.
Monday 21 January 2013
The Will of Thomas Passman of Hutton Rudby, 1828
More from my working notes. Again, I can't guarantee accuracy. Thomas Passman's Will is to be found at the Borthwick Institute, York.
Thomas Passman was a yeoman farmer.
On his death in 1830, he owned houses, buildings, yards, garths and gardens and a 4 acre close called the Holme or Hunters Holme. Part of the property had been bought by William Passman in 1729; part Thomas had bought from Elizabeth Souter and Robert Moon Souter in 1822. His trustees were Thomas Tweddle and Thomas Kingston; he left his estate to his daughter Mary Kingston and her family. The Kingston family were related to the Hebbrons.
Summary
Thomas Passman was a yeoman farmer.
On his death in 1830, he owned houses, buildings, yards, garths and gardens and a 4 acre close called the Holme or Hunters Holme. Part of the property had been bought by William Passman in 1729; part Thomas had bought from Elizabeth Souter and Robert Moon Souter in 1822. His trustees were Thomas Tweddle and Thomas Kingston; he left his estate to his daughter Mary Kingston and her family. The Kingston family were related to the Hebbrons.
Thomas Passman: Will dated 20 Oct 1828, died 11 Sep 1830, aged 80
Summary
Executrix: Mary Kingston, his daughter. Trustees: Thomas Tweddell and Thomas
Kingston. His houses and the close called the Holme to his trustees on
trust for sale, with daughter Mary Kingston to have a life interest. On
her death, her daughters – Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary Ann & Eleanor -
to have £20 each, and the residue to go to his grandson Thomas
Kingston. Household effects and ready money to Mary Kingston
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Passman of Hutton near Rudby in the County of York Yeoman made the twentieth day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
Saturday 19 January 2013
Vicars and Churchwardens of All Saints', Hutton Rudby in the C18 and C19
During the 18th and 19th centuries, eight vicars served All Saints' Church and the parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland.
Churchwardens were elected annually. The list of their names reflects the families that have moved in and out of the village over the years.
1700-35 [1]
Rev Michael Lieth (variously spelt Lyth and Lythe)
1735-67
Rev George Stainthorpe
1767-74
Rev Donald Grant
Grant wrote Two Dissertations on Popish Persecution and Breach of Faith which you can, amazingly, still buy on Amazon.
In this work, he admits that he knows a number of worthy local Roman Catholic families, some of which had lived in the area since the Reformation, but said that he strongly opposed their Faith and their claim to be loyal to the King
(Isn't it pleasant to reflect that All Saints has for some years been part of a successful Local Ecumenical Partnership with the Methodist and Catholic churches?)
Churchwardens were elected annually. The list of their names reflects the families that have moved in and out of the village over the years.
1700-35 [1]
Rev Michael Lieth (variously spelt Lyth and Lythe)
1735-67
Rev George Stainthorpe
1767-74
Rev Donald Grant
Grant wrote Two Dissertations on Popish Persecution and Breach of Faith which you can, amazingly, still buy on Amazon.
In this work, he admits that he knows a number of worthy local Roman Catholic families, some of which had lived in the area since the Reformation, but said that he strongly opposed their Faith and their claim to be loyal to the King
(Isn't it pleasant to reflect that All Saints has for some years been part of a successful Local Ecumenical Partnership with the Methodist and Catholic churches?)
Thursday 17 January 2013
Will of Revd Jeremiah Grice of Hutton Rudby, May 1820
From my research notes - in case it is of use or interest to anybody else. I think it's all accurate, but obviously I can't guarantee accuracy.
Jeremiah Grice was the vicar of Hutton Rudby from 1781 until his death in 1820. His Will can be found at the Borthwick Institute, York. I will begin with a summary of the contents, go on with a transcription and finish with notes on it.
Grice was the last vicar to be buried within the altar rails of Hutton Rudby church.
One of the witnesses to his Will was Thomas Pulman, the surgeon who died in the cholera outbreak of 1832.
Summary
Jeremiah Grice was the vicar of Hutton Rudby from 1781 until his death in 1820. His Will can be found at the Borthwick Institute, York. I will begin with a summary of the contents, go on with a transcription and finish with notes on it.
Grice was the last vicar to be buried within the altar rails of Hutton Rudby church.
One of the witnesses to his Will was Thomas Pulman, the surgeon who died in the cholera outbreak of 1832.
Jeremiah Grice: Will dated 1 May 1820, died 13 May 1820, age 71
Summary
Executrix: Elizabeth Nelson of Halifax. Household contents in his
dwellinghouse in the township of Hutton to Mary Baillieur. The house
and lands at Trenholme, occupied by Richard Simpson, to Mary Baillieur
for life and on her death as she shall appoint. The house and lands in
the township of Hutton lately bought from Matthew Appleton to Robert
& Elizabeth Baillieur for life, subject to an annuity of £10 p.a. to
Elizabeth Nelson, and on their deaths to Elizabeth Nelson. All
property in Halifax, and his ready money, to Elizabeth Nelson.
Monday 14 January 2013
Notes on Hutton Rudby's industries in the 19th century
From my research notes for Remarkable, but still True. I can't guarantee accuracy, but I thought it might be of interest to others to see the topics brought together in this way. I have added internet links where I have found them available.
1808: Graves noted that “there are no common, or uninclosed lands, which is a circumstance of some advantage and consequence to husbandry”.
1853-70: The “Golden Age of Farming”
1877: the price of wheat began to drop disastrously
1894: Royal Commission noted that in the Stokesley area wheat growing land had fallen in value by two thirds since 1879, farmers had lost their capital and three had even applied for poor relief
This depression in farming only came to an end with the First War
1801 Census
Skutterskelfe, Sexhow and East Rounton wholly agricultural
Hutton, Rudby and Middleton 20 % agricultural and 80 % manufacturing, trade or handicraft
1808
Graves commented that in the parish the number of people engaged in agriculture and the number engaged in trade or manufactures was nearly equal.
1831-41
Ord noted in 1846 a decrease in population between 1831 and (probably) 1841, and attributes it to “the removal of families to Middlesborough”.
1841-51
the linen industry collapsed.
1841 Census
there were 37 farmers, 2 hinds and 71 agricultural labourers, 62 % men and 38 % women. 9 of the women and 10 of the men were 65 to 85 years old
1851 Census
there were 94 farm labourers and 41 farm servants – 86 labourers were men, and only 5 men and 1 woman were over 65. The young men had been displaced from the linen industry into agriculture.
1861 Census
there were 52 farmers, 111 labourers and 38 speciality farm workers eg ploughmen, milkmaids.
A number of Drainers are listed in the Census – 12 men aged between 24 and 50. One was born in Hutton, one in Stockton, 4 were Yorkshiremen, two of them married to Hutton women, one was born in Lincoln and 5 in Ireland.
Agriculture
1808: Graves noted that “there are no common, or uninclosed lands, which is a circumstance of some advantage and consequence to husbandry”.
1853-70: The “Golden Age of Farming”
1877: the price of wheat began to drop disastrously
1894: Royal Commission noted that in the Stokesley area wheat growing land had fallen in value by two thirds since 1879, farmers had lost their capital and three had even applied for poor relief
This depression in farming only came to an end with the First War
1801 Census
Skutterskelfe, Sexhow and East Rounton wholly agricultural
Hutton, Rudby and Middleton 20 % agricultural and 80 % manufacturing, trade or handicraft
1808
Graves commented that in the parish the number of people engaged in agriculture and the number engaged in trade or manufactures was nearly equal.
1831-41
Ord noted in 1846 a decrease in population between 1831 and (probably) 1841, and attributes it to “the removal of families to Middlesborough”.
1841-51
the linen industry collapsed.
1841 Census
there were 37 farmers, 2 hinds and 71 agricultural labourers, 62 % men and 38 % women. 9 of the women and 10 of the men were 65 to 85 years old
1851 Census
there were 94 farm labourers and 41 farm servants – 86 labourers were men, and only 5 men and 1 woman were over 65. The young men had been displaced from the linen industry into agriculture.
1861 Census
there were 52 farmers, 111 labourers and 38 speciality farm workers eg ploughmen, milkmaids.
A number of Drainers are listed in the Census – 12 men aged between 24 and 50. One was born in Hutton, one in Stockton, 4 were Yorkshiremen, two of them married to Hutton women, one was born in Lincoln and 5 in Ireland.
Saturday 12 January 2013
Arrears of tithe in Myshall, Co Carlow
This article deals with the list of arrears of tithe that Mr Barlow and his sister Nanny believed was due to her late husband, who had been Rector of Myshall in County Carlow.
The list is to be found in a notebook held at North Yorkshire County Record Office and has been listed as "Rental of an Irish estate(?)". As any information relating to Irish genealogy is always welcome because of the destruction of records in 1922, I think it worthwhile posting here.
As it is not easy to transfer the columns of figures and abbreviations into a blog post, I shall list only the names - anybody wanting more details, please feel free to contact me!
I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription, so please consult the original.
[The Rudby-in-Cleveland PCC Minute Book 1920-32. NYCRO PR/HTR: MIC 1207]
Mr Barlow's Notebook
The North Yorkshire County Record Office holds a book used by the Rudby Parochial Church Council as a Minute Book, which had originally been used in the 19th century as a notebook by the Revd R J Barlow.
The book opens with Mr Barlow's jotted "Notes on Humbolts Cosmos Vol 1." (A few notes relating to Cosmos also appear in another of Mr Barlow's notebooks, in the possession of Hutton Rudby Primary School).
These extend over several pages, and are then followed by twelve pages of names and figures set out in columns, the first headings being "Myshall", "Arrears May 1st 1833", and "half yearly". This text was hitherto described as "rental of an Irish estate (?)." However, a comparison with the Tithe Applotment Book for the townlands of the parish of Myshall in County Carlow (1827) shows that the arrears in question are arrears of tithes.
The list is to be found in a notebook held at North Yorkshire County Record Office and has been listed as "Rental of an Irish estate(?)". As any information relating to Irish genealogy is always welcome because of the destruction of records in 1922, I think it worthwhile posting here.
As it is not easy to transfer the columns of figures and abbreviations into a blog post, I shall list only the names - anybody wanting more details, please feel free to contact me!
I cannot guarantee the accuracy of the transcription, so please consult the original.
[The Rudby-in-Cleveland PCC Minute Book 1920-32. NYCRO PR/HTR: MIC 1207]
Mr Barlow's Notebook
The North Yorkshire County Record Office holds a book used by the Rudby Parochial Church Council as a Minute Book, which had originally been used in the 19th century as a notebook by the Revd R J Barlow.
The book opens with Mr Barlow's jotted "Notes on Humbolts Cosmos Vol 1." (A few notes relating to Cosmos also appear in another of Mr Barlow's notebooks, in the possession of Hutton Rudby Primary School).
These extend over several pages, and are then followed by twelve pages of names and figures set out in columns, the first headings being "Myshall", "Arrears May 1st 1833", and "half yearly". This text was hitherto described as "rental of an Irish estate (?)." However, a comparison with the Tithe Applotment Book for the townlands of the parish of Myshall in County Carlow (1827) shows that the arrears in question are arrears of tithes.
Friday 11 January 2013
1851 Ecclesiastical Census for Gt Ayton, Nunthorpe, Stokesley and Hutton Rudby
On Sunday 30 March 1851, two censuses were taken. One was the census of the entire population, and the other was the Ecclesiastical Census. This was the only census of religious attendance in England and Wales ever taken by the state; it has never been repeated.
The results were analysed by the civil servant, Horace Mann (1823-1917) and his report was published in January 1854.
It is not possible to calculate from the returns the number of people who attended worship that day. Instead, the census returns show how many attendances there were at each service (morning, afternoon and evening).
Many people will have attended more than one service and it was quite common for people to attend the service of one denomination in the morning and another in the afternoon or evening.
The census was entirely voluntary, and not every church, chapel and meeting house sent in a return. Some vicars felt that the state had no business making such an enquiry, and refused to complete the forms.
The total population was nearly 18 million. 7,261,032 attendances were recorded.
Thursday 10 January 2013
The Digby Beste family in Indiana, 1851
The Revd Robert Barlow's sister-in-law Marian D'Oyley Bird married her third husband, John Richard Digby Beste, in 1850.
He was a widower with ten children aged between two and nineteen; she had a 13 year old daughter Louisa and an adopted daughter aged about 17, Elencho Marie (later known as Ellen Mary).
In 1851, Marian and her new husband took ship to America with eleven of their children, a lapdog, six canaries and a parrot [cf Remarkable, but still True, chapter 18].
Digby Beste's lively account of the family's travels can now be read online: The Wabash: or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America, Volumes one and two.
He includes many lively and fluent contributions written by his children. He had set them the task of writing something each day as an exercise in composition and handwriting. When, as he explained in his Preface to volume one,
Several of the party fell seriously ill with dysentery while they were staying in a hotel in Terre Haute, Indiana, and 9 year old Isabel died there on 10 July 1851.
Her sister gives a touching account (pages 38 & 39) of the poor child's death and funeral, with grateful notice of the number of strangers who attended the funeral of "the little stranger of whom they knew nothing, and to show their sympathy for the family".
Details of her grave can be found here, at Find A Grave.
He was a widower with ten children aged between two and nineteen; she had a 13 year old daughter Louisa and an adopted daughter aged about 17, Elencho Marie (later known as Ellen Mary).
In 1851, Marian and her new husband took ship to America with eleven of their children, a lapdog, six canaries and a parrot [cf Remarkable, but still True, chapter 18].
Digby Beste's lively account of the family's travels can now be read online: The Wabash: or Adventures of an English Gentleman's Family in the Interior of America, Volumes one and two.
He includes many lively and fluent contributions written by his children. He had set them the task of writing something each day as an exercise in composition and handwriting. When, as he explained in his Preface to volume one,
these descriptions appeared to me graphic or entertaining; when they told the sad scenes which I myself was incapacitated from witnessing; when, even, they only showed the impressions which a new country and new scenes produced upon new mindshe incorporated them in his text. Those of his stepdaughter Louisa Barlow Hoy can be found by searching for "Louie".
Several of the party fell seriously ill with dysentery while they were staying in a hotel in Terre Haute, Indiana, and 9 year old Isabel died there on 10 July 1851.
Her sister gives a touching account (pages 38 & 39) of the poor child's death and funeral, with grateful notice of the number of strangers who attended the funeral of "the little stranger of whom they knew nothing, and to show their sympathy for the family".
Details of her grave can be found here, at Find A Grave.
Wednesday 9 January 2013
Mrs Barlow Hoy and the new church at Bitterne, Hampshire
Another glimpse of James Barlow Hoy and his wife Marian [cf Remarkable, but still True]. Here they are going about their public duties on his new estates in Hampshire:
[from The British Magazine, and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Vol IX]
On Monday, April 18th, the first stone of the new church at Bitterne was laid by Mrs Barlow Hoy. The site of the church is in the angle of a field, close to the junction of the roads leading to Swathling, Itchen, Ferry, Bursledon, and Moor Green. The service was read by the Rev W D Harrison, the vicar. The inscription on the plate was as follows:-
The first stone of this church, built by subscription, on ground presented by J Barlow Hoy, Esq., MP, was laid on the 18th of April, 1836. W D Harrison, vicar. R Scott, and J Gale, churchwardens. J W Wild, architect.The style chosen by the architect is the simple Gothic of the 13th century; the church will have a nave and two aisles; there will be a west-end gallery, but no other; accommodation will be afforded for 640 sittings, of which 392 are to be free. The name is to be “St James's Chapel, West-end.” The Rev E R Breton is to have the perpetual curacy.
[from The British Magazine, and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Vol IX]
Monday 7 January 2013
Appendix II: Burials 3 October to 13 December 1832
1832 Burials Register, All Saints', Rudby-in-Cleveland
Entries made by Revd R J Barlow
The register shows: Name – Abode – When buried – Age
John Cook – Hutton – Octr 3rd – 48 yrs
Stephen Catchasides – Hutton – Octr 6th – 39 yrs
Wm Bainbridge – Hutton – Octr 6th – 13 yrs
Thos Preston – Hutton – Octr 6th – 50 yrs
Thos Souter – Hutton – Octr 6 – 5 yrs
Jane Bainbridge – Hutton – Octr 7th – 16 yrs
Jas Catchasides – Hutton – Octr 7th –
Grace Catchasides – Hutton – Octr 7 – 82 yrs
T. C. Pulman Surgeon – Hutton – Octr 7th – 36 yrs
John Passman – Hutton – Octr 7th – 5 yrs
Jane How – Hutton – Octr 7th – 1 yr
*Maryanne Bainbridge – Hutton – Octr
*Betty Skelton – Hutton – Octr
Thos Hall – Hutton – Octr 12th – 73 yrs
Benjamin Hall – Hutton – Octr 12 – 25 yrs
Dinah Rayne – Hutton – Octr 13th – 81 yrs
Elizabeth Bainbridge – Hutton – Octr 13 – 6 yrs
Jane Cole – Hutton – Octr 15 – 75 yrs
*Harriott Passman – Hutton – Octr 15th – 4 yrs
*Jane Walton – Hutton – Octr 16th – 59 yrs
Jonathan Eland – Hutton – Octr 19th – 82 yrs
Thos Shaw – Hutton – Octr 23 – 65 yrs
Robt Sheppard – Barrak Parish of Egglescliffe [ie. Barwick] – Octr 27th – 4 yrs
Jane Shaw – Hutton – Octr 28 – 62 yrs
Elizabeth Dixon – Hutton – Nov 10th – 41 yrs
Jane Hall – Hutton – Novr 12 – 30 yrs
Jacob Honeyman – Hutton – Nov 14th – 75 yrs
Jane Cook – Hutton – Novr 15th – 40 yrs
David Souter – Hutton – Novr 19 – 13 yrs
Elizabeth Souter – Hutton – Novr 29th – 87 yrs
John Orrigh – Faceby – Decr 3rd – 75 yrs
Emma Souter – Hutton – Decr 11th – 38 yrs
Rachel Cook – Hutton – Decr 16th – 91 yrs
* Mary Anne Bainbridge's age is left blank in Mr Barlow's additional "Sepultorum nomina" list
* Betty Skelton's age is left blank in the "Sepultorum nomina" list
* Harriott Passman's age, unclear in the main register, is clearly 6 in the "Sepultorum nomina" list
* Jane Walton's age is given as 57 in the "Sepultorum nomina" list
Sunday 6 January 2013
Appendix I: Barlow Family Tree
John Barlow = Ann [?Wilson]
c1769-1844
_____________________|___________________________
James Mary Isabella John Anne Robert
Barlow Sophia Catherine Wilson "Nanny" Joseph
Hoy Barlow Barlow Barlow Barlow Barlow
c1769-1844
_____________________|___________________________
Barlow Sophia Catherine Wilson "Nanny" Joseph
Hoy Barlow Barlow Barlow Barlow Barlow
James Barlow Hoy (c1792-1843) married Marian D’Oyley Bird (1814-85) in 1831.
Their only child Louisa Barlow Hoy (1838-?) married Guadagno Guadagni and had four children: Guitto, Catherine, Aurora and Mary.Mary Sophia Barlow (c1795-1873)
Their adopted daughter Elencho Marie Pera, later Ellen Mary, was born c1834. She married Robert Claude Evans. Following the death of James Barlow Hoy, Marian D’Oyley Bird married Captain Richard Meredith; following his death she married John Richard Digby Beste.
Isabella Catherine Barlow (c1799-1874)
John Wilson Barlow (c1800-37) married Georgina Borough (c1804-?) in 1831.
Their only child was James John Barlow, of whom nothing is known.Anne “Nanny” Barlow, Mrs Vaughan (c1801-67) married the Revd Hector Francis Vaughan (c1785-1834) in 1830.
Their only child, Hector Barlow Vaughan (c1833-85) married Wilhelmina Christiana Mathews and had two children, Caroline and Hectoria VaughanRobert Joseph Barlow (c1804-78) married Marianne Webb (c1782-1852) in 1829. They had no children
Saturday 5 January 2013
Chapter 24. Epilogue
Three years after Mr Barlow's death, the Revd George Sanger's ministry came to an abrupt and unexpected end.
The new church at Carlton was opened by the Archdeacon in March 1879. George Sanger had done much of the work himself – it was a magnificent undertaking. Unfortunately, his relations with his parishioners were growing increasingly difficult.
At three o'clock in the morning on 19 October 1881, the new church was destroyed by fire.
Soon it became apparent that some of his parishioners fervently believed that their vicar had destroyed his own church. A long history of petty grievances and village gossip had apparently combined to produce a combustible mixture.
Mr Sanger was arrested in London on a charge of arson soon after his marriage to his young and allegedly pregnant housekeeper (who seems to have been the niece of James Stanger's wife). The case was dismissed by the Stokesley magistrates in January 1882, but the public opinion in Carlton remained unrelenting.
Nevertheless Mr Sanger entreated his parishioners to build a new church:
He was inhibited by the church authorities from taking services for five years on an ecclesiastical offence, but for many years afterwards much of the parish continued to ostracise the poor man. While parishioners attended services at Faceby, Mr Sanger lived on in the vicarage, spending his time walking on the moors. A reconciliation took place as he came to his deathbed in 1894. According to Major Fairfax-Blakeborough,
The new church at Carlton was opened by the Archdeacon in March 1879. George Sanger had done much of the work himself – it was a magnificent undertaking. Unfortunately, his relations with his parishioners were growing increasingly difficult.
At three o'clock in the morning on 19 October 1881, the new church was destroyed by fire.
Soon it became apparent that some of his parishioners fervently believed that their vicar had destroyed his own church. A long history of petty grievances and village gossip had apparently combined to produce a combustible mixture.
Mr Sanger was arrested in London on a charge of arson soon after his marriage to his young and allegedly pregnant housekeeper (who seems to have been the niece of James Stanger's wife). The case was dismissed by the Stokesley magistrates in January 1882, but the public opinion in Carlton remained unrelenting.
Nevertheless Mr Sanger entreated his parishioners to build a new church:
Money is not wanting in the parish, where one parishioner can boast of being able to command £70,000, and the united income of the wealthy landowners is not much less than £1m a year.Perhaps the distinct lack of tact may explain some of his past difficulties in dealing with his parishioners.
He was inhibited by the church authorities from taking services for five years on an ecclesiastical offence, but for many years afterwards much of the parish continued to ostracise the poor man. While parishioners attended services at Faceby, Mr Sanger lived on in the vicarage, spending his time walking on the moors. A reconciliation took place as he came to his deathbed in 1894. According to Major Fairfax-Blakeborough,
some of those who have had time to hear all the evidence, and every insinuation, are confirmed in the certain opinion that the Rev Geo. Sangar had no part in the burning of his Church. The mystery will probably never now be solved, though it is said the late Vicar himself could have explained it and that spleen was the motive.The case inspired the Middlesbrough-born writer, E W Hornung, creator of Raffles, the gentleman thief, to write a fictionalised version in his novel Peccavi [1].
Friday 4 January 2013
Chapter 23. "The old vicar of Rudby has gone to his well-earned rest"
Life in the vicarage must have grown more lonely for Mr Barlow in the years following Nanny's death.
His sister Mary Sophia was suffering from dementia and died aged 78 of "Senile Decay" on 17 September 1873. She was followed six months later on 7 March 1874 by her sister Isabella, whose cause of death was registered as "General Debility" at the age of 74.
As before, it was not Mr Barlow who registered their deaths. Mary's was registered by Christopher Garbutt, the joiner and publican of the King's Head, and Isabella's by the joiner Alvey Kay – they had presumably supplied the coffins and were acting as undertakers.
The sisters were buried in the family vault and a memorial tablet was placed on the church wall near the door. Hector Vaughan possibly contributed to the cost of this, which gives full details of his father – it can be seen that Mr Barlow employed the Latin version of the degree of Master of Arts. The lettering was apparently in gold, although no trace of this remains:
His sister Mary Sophia was suffering from dementia and died aged 78 of "Senile Decay" on 17 September 1873. She was followed six months later on 7 March 1874 by her sister Isabella, whose cause of death was registered as "General Debility" at the age of 74.
As before, it was not Mr Barlow who registered their deaths. Mary's was registered by Christopher Garbutt, the joiner and publican of the King's Head, and Isabella's by the joiner Alvey Kay – they had presumably supplied the coffins and were acting as undertakers.
The sisters were buried in the family vault and a memorial tablet was placed on the church wall near the door. Hector Vaughan possibly contributed to the cost of this, which gives full details of his father – it can be seen that Mr Barlow employed the Latin version of the degree of Master of Arts. The lettering was apparently in gold, although no trace of this remains:
IN A VAULT NEAR THIS LIE THE REMAINS OF NANNY VAUGHAN
WIDOW OF THE LATE REVD HECTOR FRANCIS VAUGHAN A.M.
RECTOR OF MYSHALL WHO DIED OCTOBER THE 26TH 1867
AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO OF MARY SOPHIA BARLOW WHO DIED SEPTR 7TH 1873
AGED 78 YEARS
ALSO OF ISABELLA CATHERINE BARLOW WHO DIED MARCH 7TH 1874
AGED 74 YEARS
THE NAMES OF THESE THREE DESERVEDLY BELOVED SISTERS
ARE HERE RECORDED BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE BROTHER
IN CHARACTERS OF GOLD AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR WORTH
WIDOW OF THE LATE REVD HECTOR FRANCIS VAUGHAN A.M.
RECTOR OF MYSHALL WHO DIED OCTOBER THE 26TH 1867
AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO OF MARY SOPHIA BARLOW WHO DIED SEPTR 7TH 1873
AGED 78 YEARS
ALSO OF ISABELLA CATHERINE BARLOW WHO DIED MARCH 7TH 1874
AGED 74 YEARS
THE NAMES OF THESE THREE DESERVEDLY BELOVED SISTERS
ARE HERE RECORDED BY THEIR AFFECTIONATE BROTHER
IN CHARACTERS OF GOLD AS A TESTIMONY OF THEIR WORTH
Now Robert was alone in the vicarage. He had his friends and regular consultations with his curate George Sanger, and he was still active, as his notebook shows.
Wednesday 2 January 2013
Chapter 22. 'Remarkable, but still True'
The 1871 census found a diminished household at the vicarage – Robert, his sister Mary (here called Maria), whose age is now given as 75, and his sister Isabella (here for some reason called Jane), whose age is given as 72. They had one maid of all work living in the house – 20-year-old Mary Chipchase, born in Appleton Wiske.
New industries had come – there were now jet miners living in the village and working in Scugdale and a busy timber mill stood at the top of Sexhow Lane. George Wilson's Sailcloth Mill employed 24 men and 9 women and was being converted from water to steam power, while over on the Rudby side of the river, the bleach house employed three men.
Mr Barlow was occupied with a new project.
Not for him the usual topics of the clergyman scholar – he was engaged in a lively volume of disguised autobiography and colourful anecdote, under the pen-name Walter Fitzallen. It is interesting to note that nearly all the names he gives his characters were used by Sir Walter Scott – Graham, Clutterbuck, Barnard, Seymour and the name Fitzallen itself. Perhaps, although he does not mention reading Scott, he was so fond of his works that he had absorbed the names without noticing.
The novel was printed for Mr Barlow in 1872 by Wyman & Sons of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields – again, he had evidently no desire to use the local printers – and appeared as a small octavo volume (19cm tall) of 406 pages divided into 34 chapters.
New industries had come – there were now jet miners living in the village and working in Scugdale and a busy timber mill stood at the top of Sexhow Lane. George Wilson's Sailcloth Mill employed 24 men and 9 women and was being converted from water to steam power, while over on the Rudby side of the river, the bleach house employed three men.
Mr Barlow was occupied with a new project.
Not for him the usual topics of the clergyman scholar – he was engaged in a lively volume of disguised autobiography and colourful anecdote, under the pen-name Walter Fitzallen. It is interesting to note that nearly all the names he gives his characters were used by Sir Walter Scott – Graham, Clutterbuck, Barnard, Seymour and the name Fitzallen itself. Perhaps, although he does not mention reading Scott, he was so fond of his works that he had absorbed the names without noticing.
The novel was printed for Mr Barlow in 1872 by Wyman & Sons of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields – again, he had evidently no desire to use the local printers – and appeared as a small octavo volume (19cm tall) of 406 pages divided into 34 chapters.
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